Zayn Malik
speaker
838 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 11 Feb
Zayn Malik’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Take the reins.
Yeah, I think I'd known for a minute. There was a lot of, look, I don't want to go into too much detail, but there was a lot of politics going on. Certain people were doing certain things, certain people didn't want to sign contracts. So I knew something was happening. So I just got ahead of the curve. If I'm being honest with you, I was like, I'm just going to get out of here.
I think this is done. And I'd just seen it.
um and i completely selfishly wanted to be the first person to go and make my own record if i'm being completely honest with you i was like i'm gonna jump the gun here for the first time i'm passive dude but when it comes to my music and and my business i'm serious about it and i'm competitive so i wanted to be the first to go and do my own thing that's that was
the reason and then there was obviously underlying issues like within our friendships too we'd been together every day for five years and we'd got sick of each other if i'm being completely honest so we were we were close you know we done crazy things with each other and that nobody else in the world will ever understand or have them experiences that we've shared with each other and and i look back on it now in a much fonder light than i would have you know as i just left um there were great experiences i had great times with them but yeah we just run our course
For sure, yeah. It's an idea, isn't it? It's like when you watch Friends. You don't want Joey cussing off Chandler, you know what I mean? You want these people to be best friends. Like, it's an idea.
I don't think I was afraid. No. The first thing I wanted to do was call my mom. as cheesy as that sounds. I just wanted to call her and be like, is it okay if I come home? Is this good? And she was like, yeah. So as soon as she said that, I was like, yeah, I'm good. I'm done. I'm over this. I didn't really care about what anybody else thought. That's the type of person I am.
Like we were talking about earlier, I try to close them opinions off. I'm not really the type of person who defines myself on other people's opinions of myself. If people know me and know me well, they know who I am.
And I spend that time on them people and make sure that they're looked after and they get that time with me rather than the people that I'm never necessarily even going to see or have a conversation with, especially if it's a negative remark. Positive remarks are always nice. I don't really pay attention to either of them, if I'm being completely honest with you. Just don't let it get in my head.
Yeah. Your circle. Yeah. And as long as they're good, then that's all that matters to me.
Did I not tell my mum I was leaving?
Yeah, man. She's like, can I come back? My dad wasn't so cool about it. He was like, no, no, you got to stay with Simon. Simon's going to stay. You're right. Like, don't come home. Stay there. But my mum was like, yeah, you can come home. Please, son, come home. You know?
It was interesting, I was just trying to get stuff together. I wanted to get a plan of action, you know what I mean? So I was on a bit of a mission. I wasn't there too long. I went home for a little bit and then I went back to London and started working and stuff.
Yeah, for sure. It's a very different experience standing on stage by yourself too. It's a whole different workload as well, singing three and a half minutes of a song completely by yourself. When you've got a song divvied between five people, you're singing a little bit of a verse, maybe some ad-libs. I preferred the workload, I'm going to be honest.
You're just like, sing, it's your part. Yeah, nice one. But yeah, I just kind of had to like make an adjustment. I started practicing a lot more, singing a lot more and just like making sure I could sing for three minutes.
yeah definitely i think that's why um i've took the time i have to like not even necessarily do interviews and do too much like press exposure because i feel like we were so overexposed in the band that like it takes a bit of time for you naturally to progress as a human and give something else that is interesting that you have to say you don't want to be sat there just
saying the same shit on repeat, you know what I mean? Day in, day out. Like, I think there should be a good, healthy break in between. And that was my approach to it for sure. So I feel like in terms of, you know, figuring out what your identity is as an artist, the only way you're going to do that is by living.
You know, you can't just be on the conveyor belt and expect to have any sort of experience that's new that you're going to give people.
career like was there anything that you really wanted to make sure that you could bring to life that maybe you weren't able to when you were in a band like creatively creatively I just wanted to talk about things you know that were a bit more real like an authentic to situations I was going through in my life like obviously certain things that we would talk about in the band was always very you know clean
cut like just glazing over the top not really any depth or any stories to what's going on um and that was always a big thing for me obviously i understand again from a marketing scheme that like the the audience and the fan base we were appealing to at that point was that kind of vibe so it was never going to work um for that kind of audience but yeah i just wanted to show people that had a bit more depth
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