Zayn Malik Interview With The Sun After Leaving One Direction

Zayn Malik had a phone interview with the Sun’s Dan Wootton. An account, 17 black, has shared the audio of the interview online, which you can listen here.

The full transcript of the interview is below:

Dan Wootton: Hey Zayn, how are you, man?

Zayn Malik: Um…yeah, interesting. I’m feeling quite interesting, let’s go with that.

DW: It must have been a nightmare of a week for you.

ZM: Um…ish, yeah. You know at the same time, it’s crazy and wild and a bit mad but, at the same time, I’ve never felt more in control. I feel like I’m doing what’s right, right by myself and right by the boys, so I feel good.

DW: Absolutely, and so what’s the plan?

ZM: Just to kind of be myself for a bit. Um, I think I’m just gonna write and relax and chill.

DW: How’s Perrie?

ZM: Eh, she’s alright, man. She’s a good girl.

DW: What does she think about it? Was she supportive or was she saying, “Look, give it another go”?

ZM: Yeah, she’s always supportive. She’s always good, man.

DW: What is your message that you’re wanting people to know?

ZM: My main message is I did try to do something that I wasn’t happy doing for a while for the sake of, maybe, other people’s happiness, and that was mainly the fans, and, and I only ever tried to do it for the fans. And it was only every for them, and basically I’m only upset because I feel like I may have let them down in some sort of way and that’s the main thing that I don’t want to happen. It’s not that I’ve turned my back on them or anything, it’s just that I can’t do that anymore. It’s not real to me.

DW: So you reckon the other four are in it for the long haul?

ZM: Yeah definitely, and when I was there as well we were all—it was not contingencies, y’know what I mean, it was always just doing what we were doing and that’s why it’s been really good for me, because I feel it’s been a bit different to what other bands are broken up by when a member’s left, or whatever. My band’s been really supportive, they’ve been really cool about it and they, they understand that, y’know it’s not real to me anymore. They still wanna do it for a while so they’re gonna carry on doing what they wanna do and I think they’re gonna do okay for a while. I think they’ll be cool.

On Wednesday, Zayn announced that he is leaving his group, One Direction.