Louis Tomlinson

Zane Lowe· Host0:00

The Zane Lowe Interview Series Welcome back to Los Angeles.

Louis Tomlinson· Guest0:02

Thank you.

Zane Lowe· Host0:03

Do you like it here?

Louis Tomlinson· Guest0:03

I, I like it here. My, I mean, I, I might- Oh, your voice went up a little higher. Yeah. Uh, I'm not, I'm not very good at- Yeah ... at bullshitting really. Um- Please don't ... look, I spend, I spend a lot of time here because, um, m- m- my son lives out here. Well, he lives in, in Ventura actually.

Zane Lowe· Host0:17

Yeah.

Louis Tomlinson· Guest0:17

Um, so I've been spending a lot of time here for, for a while.

Zane Lowe· Host0:21

Yeah, yeah.

Louis Tomlinson· Guest0:21

I think it's one of those places you need, you need your little... You need your clique really. So like I'm- You need your roots. Yeah. I'm o- only ever really here for Freddie.

Zane Lowe· Host0:28

Mm.

Louis Tomlinson· Guest0:28

So it's not somewhere that like is an overly social place for me.

Zane Lowe· Host0:32

Yeah.

Louis Tomlinson· Guest0:32

It's like this is where I'm full-time dad basically, which is lovely.

Zane Lowe· Host0:35

How old is your boy now?

Louis Tomlinson· Guest0:35

10.

Zane Lowe· Host0:36

Wow. Congrats.

Louis Tomlinson· Guest0:37

10. About to be 10. 10 in two days.

Zane Lowe· Host0:40

What's he into? Without putting his biz in the streets, what does he love?

Louis Tomlinson· Guest0:42

Love surfing. Nothing's come close to surfing.

Zane Lowe· Host0:45

Nice. In the right part of the world.

Louis Tomlinson· Guest0:45

And I've, I've tried to push him into, into football a little bit. Um- [laughs] You know, gently.

Zane Lowe· Host0:50

Yeah.

Louis Tomlinson· Guest0:50

[laughs] Gently.

Zane Lowe· Host0:50

Yeah.

Louis Tomlinson· Guest0:50

But, um, he doesn't seem overly bothered about that. Surfing's his thing. We went to Disney yesterday to celebrate his birthday- Beautiful ... which, um, which was an experience. That was fun. It's been a while since I've been.

Zane Lowe· Host0:59

[laughs] An experience.

Louis Tomlinson· Guest0:59

Yeah, yeah.

Zane Lowe· Host1:00

No shade. There's never any shade at Disney.

Louis Tomlinson· Guest1:02

No, no, no, no shade. No shade. But, uh- On a hot day- We still had fun.

Zane Lowe· Host1:05

No, but I mean no shade, but also no shade. On a hot day- Oh, on, right.

Louis Tomlinson· Guest1:08

Yeah, yeah ...

Zane Lowe· Host1:08

on a hot... [laughs] No, to keep it like, you know- Yeah, very modern.

Louis Tomlinson· Guest1:09

Yeah, yeah ...

Zane Lowe· Host1:10

you have to keep it modern and, uh- Yeah ... and like, and, uh- Very Gen Z, yeah ... yeah, yeah. [laughs] But actually, no shade. Like I, I noticed that- [laughs] ... Disneyland in a, on a hot day, it's, uh, tough.

Louis Tomlinson· Guest1:18

It is. Yeah, it was very, very hot. I actually felt pretty bad 'cause, uh, one of the first rides that we went on, me son, uh... I had to encourage him to be brave. I do hope that he is brave.

Zane Lowe· Host1:28

Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Louis Tomlinson· Guest1:28

And he, he was well up for getting on the first rollercoaster,