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I always felt that I got some favoritism sometimes in certain places because the fans obviously want to relate to someone that’s similar to them. I’m just a normal person as well as following my religion, and doing all the normal things that everybody else does. I love music and I get tattoos and I make mistakes, and I’ve had to go through relationships and break up relationships. I feel proud that people actually look to me and can see themselves in that. I don’t feel like I felt pressure ever. I always felt good that I was, like, first of my kind in what I was doing. I enjoyed that I brought the diversity. But I would never be trying to influence anything or try to stamp myself as a religious statement or portrayal of anything. I am me. I’m just doing me.

Zayn for Fader Magazine. (via fuckyeahzarry)

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There was never any room for me to experiment creatively in the band. If I would sing a hook or a verse slightly R&B, or slightly myself, it would always be recorded 50 times until there was a straight version that was pop, generic as fuck, so they could use that version. Whenever I would suggest something, it was like it didn’t fit us. There was just a general conception that the management already had of what they want for the band, and I just wasn’t convinced with what we were selling. I wasn’t 100 percent behind the music. It wasn’t me. It was music that was already given to us, and we were told this is what is going to sell to these people. As much as we were the biggest, most famous boy band in the world, it felt weird. We were told to be happy about something that we weren’t happy about.

Zayn for Fader Magazine. (via fuckyeahzarry)

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Zayn for The Fader (dec 2015/jan 2016 issue)

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befour

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thefader: “I’m working every day now, but I’m working on music that I enjoy.”~@zayn. Hit the bio link to read “Next Direction,” the first of two Now Issue cover stories. Photo by @francesco_nazardo for The FADER.

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@wildarms_xo: tfw when your @zaynmalik story finally goes online http://www.thefader.com/2015/11/17/zayn-malik-fader-cover-story-interview-solo-album-one-direction …

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 Zayn Malik for Fader Magazine

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Zayn says there were plenty of times where an interviewer, having only asked questions of his bandmates, would turn to him and suggest, “Zayn you’ve been awfully quiet.” “I’m actually quite easy, a happy-go-lucky sort of guy,” he says, “but there was a lot of situations that were almost created to make me be portrayed as the mysterious or quiet one. I guess that’s just something that people buy into, and it helps them sell things. It’s a product that’s already designed, and it sells.

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@zayn #befour •This one took me a while to complete •Have a lovely day!🍊

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Charlotte, NC | 9/27

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Charlotte-28Sep14

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If this doesn’t brighten your day then idk what to tell u

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