Louis Tomlinson Says One Direction's Split Definitely Surprised Him

Louis Tomlinson stopped by Build Series last week in New York City and opened up about all his upcoming music and album, plus how One Direction‘s split affected him.

“I just wasn’t ready for the band to go on a break, to be honest,” the 27-year-old musician admitted during his appearance. “It surprised me to a certain degree, so I didn’t have any plan in place or anything like that.”

Louis continues, “I think I just thought that I was going to carry on writing for other people, but not necessarily for myself. Then you know, like I’m sure a lot of people in this situation, I did a bit of writing and I liked some of the songs I was writing. I thought, ‘Yeah, might as well have a crack with this.’”

He also talked about his new music and why it took him a long time to find his sound.

“I spent a long time trying to find exactly what my sound was. It took me a good year, 18 months,” Louis says. “To be fair, when I first went out on my own I wasn’t even sure that I was definitely going to make a solo record.”

Thankfully, it turned out that way: “One thing led to another and I kind of actually had to learn on the job who I am, really, as an artist. Because I’d only really looked at myself as a little lad in a band. So all of a sudden I had to look at myself as an artist, as an individual. So that took a little bit of time.”

You can check out his full interview below: