He regrets not owning the band's name, as it limits the possibility of the group reforming for future tours.

“The one thing I regret is I should have kept the name. Oh, you should have owned the name. I should have the name. You didn't own the name? No. Who owns the name? They do. Oh, okay. That's the problem.”

Josh Richards claims that the boy band One Direction was a significant part of the lives of people in his age demographic.

“I think everyone in the age of me de Bri and even like a couple years on both sides like One Direction was a part of your life in some way no matter what they were so big”