Zayn Malik said this week that he regrets not taking time to appreciate his time with boy band One Direction, adding that he is “able to be happier now.”
“I always feel bad when I look back on my life, he’s not enjoying the band enough,” Malik said. . “I think I took things too seriously, you know? I’m thankful that I’m able to be happier now. I can actually enjoy things and own my perspective a little bit. , you know? It’s like, glass half full versus half empty.”
Malik shocked the world when he quit the mega-popular British boy band in 2015. A year later, the group — which also included Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson — went on an indefinite hiatus.
Malik, like his bandmates, was just a teenager when Simon Cowell formed the group in the UK. She said this week that her younger self “just didn’t understand the importance of trying to be happy.”
“I had this, like, teenage angst thing going on — a chip on my shoulder,” she added. “I’m like, ‘It’s great to be fucking moody all the time…’ It’s not. Like, you’re just a loser. Let’s be honest, you know what I mean?”
Since then, he said, he’s learned: “You have to be a good person. You have to be somebody that people want to be around and enjoy your presence, and you have to It should brighten people’s day instead of screw it up.
He added that part of the growth came from being a father to his daughter Khai, who he shares with ex Gigi Hadid.
“She just makes me happier,” he said. “I have so much love in me that I didn’t have before she was born. She laughs all day long. She wants to do the craziest things, and she gets so much excitement out of it, you know? That has a whole new outlook on life, [which] Something had gone gray for me.”
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