Louis Tomlinson

and just people watched for two months, you would see some stuff, you know, of people that were struggling with some things and whatever, or, you know, complete walking contradictions.

You'd see someone in their first year who says that they swear by this brand and they'll never wear this brand, and then next year they'll be wearing said brand.

When we're at that age, we're all still just working it out.

So there's so much room to be misunderstood, right?

Because you don't know yet, you know?

And I think that was a tough thing for all of us, is working out who am I outside of Liam in one direction, Louis in one direction?

Who am I and what does that look like?

And that question's intimidating, really, really intimidating.

You lose a friend there, but you also, in some respects, it marks...

It's grieving the band again, is it not?

You know what I mean?

It definitely brought up feelings like that.

Look, there's now only three other people on the planet that can deeply understand my professional journey.

Like, never say never, but never, like, I just can't, I can't ever imagine.

I'm not sure it would be right to him.

Like, say, sake of argument, 25 years time, it's like a fucking Oasis thing.

They offer us an arm and a leg and they're like, come back and do this many shows.

I don't know.

Yeah, I think it just completely put a,

pinning all that and the irony is there was no one campaigning for one direction to get back back together more than Liam and like I would say I came in a close second actually like definitely another important thing to mention about Liam which I thought was incredible there's a time where I felt like me and Liam were professionally losing together we were struggling to to um be solo artists and find true success and we're kind of struggling together