Louis Tomlinson

But I would...

That's a really tough one to answer.

It requires some true, true honesty.

The things that really, really matter.

For a start, I spent a lot of my later teen years and early adult life in One Direction, so I didn't.

I wasn't really in the headspace for the ball to have dropped for how important certain things are.

When you're younger, you're super literal, right?

Like, if I drink this alcohol and get really drunk and I feel good, then that's good, right?

Then you get a bit older and you realise, well, maybe it's not so good.

So, like, any of those kind of things...

I suppose now I understand how important, you know, looking out for yourself is and mental health, but also, you know, I've always been a family guy, but I mean, actually deeply.

and cherishing those moments as well so i definitely could have done that more as a young lad but i think that's probably the case of a lot of young people that they probably reflect and think well i should have done that more as a as a young person but the truth is the ball hasn't really dropped yet you don't realize how important those all those little intricacies intricacies are because also when you're young everything's so new so you just like the allure is so much sexier on the other side oh look there's a new thing here new thing here new thing here

Whereas I think it takes a bit of age and experience to look at those things and go, oh, actually, maybe I haven't been spending my time correctly.

Yeah.

I mean, you said it perfectly.

And it really held the mirror up to me, to be honest, because I think, you know, you said you haven't perfectly prioritised the most important things, but you're certainly prioritising more than most people.

You know, because I hear about how much effort you put into making sure you spend time with Freddie and your sister described you as always being family centric.

And that's a really, really beautiful thing.

Louis, thank you so much.

I can't be more excited to listen to the album.