Louis tells me it’s these friends from home who have kept him from getting too wrapped up in himself. In an industry that is notoriously superficial, he says, it can be hard to find an honest opinion when everyone that surrounds you is so agreeable. “I often treat that as a type of marketing,” he explains. “As in, how would my friends from Doncaster – who know nothing about music and fashion – interpret an outfit or a song or whatever. That has always really helped me. I like to think that if I came out in some awful tracksuit, they’d all tell me about it on WhatsApp, and in three months time I’d be like, ‘thank you for telling me, I looked like a right dick!’ Because if you get to a stage where you disconnect from those friends from home, other people don’t really dare go there… You can surround yourself with super successful celebrities, but you can get swallowed up in the glitz and the glam of it all.
Louis for Noisey Music (via thetomlinsondaily)
