Louis Tomlinson

They are like, you know, personal life and how happy you are and fulfilled and content.

All those things, of course, play into the record.

Definitely.

I think because of, you know, a lot of the conversation we've just had, there's been a certain kind of weight to the music before now.

Like I said, I wrote that song about my mum called Two of Us.

And there's just a certain... I could imagine, you know, listening to my first record, like, I'd be pretty exhausted after listening to it emotionally.

It's like, fucking hell, just put in a couple of nice, happy, fun songs, you know.

But it wasn't true to me at that time.

So, like, I think now...

Now I feel in a comfortable place to be like positive and like happy and confident.

You know, that's one thing I was thinking about with this record is like my intention is just to maybe feel good.

And that's a really cliche and like obvious thing to say, but...

I'm not sure some of my other music did that.

It made you feel.

It was honest.

It was painful at times, but it didn't feel that good.

So I think now I've got this almost like a new sense of life, a new sense of happiness and purpose and fulfillment, all of those things.

But also it's something I've – like the older I get, the more hippie I can get on these kind of ideas.

And if I would use like an analogy –

on the last two records i had a very small palette of paint of the colors i was choosing from and a lot of them were kind of darker colors whereas on this record it feels like the palette is a lot deeper there is a lot more to say but there's a lot more color on there as well that makes me really good because that that i must feel good to make that record you can't fake like that or at least i can't anyway and how much does love come into all of this