# Zayn Malik

Zain Javadd Malik (born 12 January 1993), known mononymously as Zayn, is an English singer and songwriter. Malik auditioned as a solo contestant for the British music competition The X Factor in 2010. After being eliminated as a solo performer, Malik was brought back into the competition, along with four other contestants, to form the boy band One Direction, which went on to become one of the best-selling boy bands of all time. Malik left the group in March 2015 and subsequently signed a solo recording contract with RCA Records.

## Quotes

* (to Liam) "No, don't be sorry [for yourself].
* "I'd make Liam my slave and I would make him be my (uh) personal trainer!"
* (on Ashley Tisdale) "You don't need a prince to be a princess."
* "Join us next week... where interviewer will be eating fruit off my naked body.."
* (on "I Don't Get Down Like That" the Swedish group Play pop song) "There comes a day when you realise turning the page is the best feeling in the world, because you realise there is so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on."
       As himself talking about it being a yearbook, on 2017-05-10,
* (on "Someday My Prince Will Come" the Ashley Tisdale pop song) "Just because your prince hasn't come doesn't mean you're not a princess."
* "If people talk behind your back, it's because you're ahead of them."
* "Before you judge someone else, judge yourself!"
* (if he's ever been in a 'romcom' or 'chick flick' before) "I think there’s a strength in expressing emotion. If you were a guy, you used to have to be really masculine, but now expressing emotion is accepted and respected."
       As 'guy who has a twin sister' on 2017-03-20,
* (on his newest iPhone) "I'm scrolling and scrolling and I’m, like, 'I have to stop,' but I can’t, so I delete the app from my phone. And download it again the next day or whatever."
       As 'guy who has a twin sister' on 2017-03-20,
* (his answer to 'do you have a twin sister?') "He’s quite influential, that Rodger. He’s done a couple of songs on the new album. He’s off fishing today."
       As 'guy who has a twin sister' on 2017-03-20,

## Song lyrics

* And girl, you and I
    We’re about to make some memories tonight
    I wanna live while we’re young
    We wanna live while we’re young
   * Live While We're Young, the unauthorised internet leak filmed in South East England
* Give me your body and let me love you like I do
    Come a little closer and let me do those things to you
    This feeling will last forever, baby, that's the truth
    Let me be your man so I can love you
   * Let Me for his partner on young people not knowing what to come in the future if it is too faraway into the future

## About Zayn Malik

* "I don't speak to him but his girlfriend is beautiful and I wish him well. We went through an experience together that was life-changing."
       Rebecca Ferguson in December 2016,
* "I've known Zayn for a really long time, I think his voice is one of those that is really rare and I think he's really special and wonderful and it's really, really amazing to get to work together."
       Taylor Swift in late January 2017,

## See also

* Joseph Gordon-Levitt
* Liam Payne
* One Direction
* Niall Horan
* Louis Tomlinson
* Harry Styles
* Twins
* Tongues

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Zayn Malik on Wikipedia
* Media related to Category:Zayn Malik on Wikimedia Commons
* Official website of inZAYN, after "I think we're inSANE!"
* Best quotes of Zayn Malik, Goodreads.com Author page on him