Louis Tomlinson

As I said, I'm a deeply, deeply romantic person.

It's also easy to be romantic when you are creative.

Those two things are just tight.

But I think for me...

I really struggle to write in a fictional sense.

I really, really struggle.

So like for me, I have to have been living it.

I have to.

It has to be literal.

It has to be real to me.

So if I wasn't feeling so good right now, I wasn't feeling so in love, the record probably would have a slightly different feel to it.

Just because, you know, things like that are in everything that I, we do, I would say.

And what is success for you this time around?

We talked about the comparison and this and that and all these other yardsticks we can use.

I'll tell you what success is.

Success for me...

is actually successfully computing what the new idea of success is.

So I know what my old idea is, but true success for me, and I'm not there yet, is getting to the point where I don't just say this is my new version of success.

I mean it implicitly.

And what's really difficult is the music industry...