I cant find a transcript so here it goes, copied from tw - zayn’s tea on 1dead:
“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 a passive dude, but when it comes to my music 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.”
there was “a lot of politics going on” before his decision to leave One Direction: “Certain people were doing certain things. Certain people didn’t want to sign contracts. So I knew something was happening [and] I just got ahead of the curve,”
Zayn says that One Direction grew “sick of each other” by the time he left the group: “We’d been together everyday for five years and we got sick of each other if I’m being completely honest […] I look back on it now in a much fonder light than I would have as I just left.”
“Now I look back at it like it was a rush, you know? It was fun and it was something that was amazing, so of course I wasn’t going to understand it. It’s not something I expected in my life, but it was definitely fun for sure.”
Zayn on being dubbed the “serious” and “mysterious” member of One Direction: “That wasn’t necessarily my personality type. I think it was just a marketing scheme […] So I get it but I don’t think you can define an entire person to one personality trait. We are a little more complex than that.”
