Zayn: The Official Autobiography

by Zayn Malik

We set up a couple of tents – one for sleeping, another for recording – and made the place our temporary home. For the first week, we recorded whenever the mood took us, taking the odd break to fire arrows into the trees while we waited for the generator to power up. Some of the vocals we recorded out there were the best I’d ever done. I was learning a lot about being a solo artist. When I’m focused on doing something I really want to do, I can suddenly become so disciplined it’s unreal. It just seems to come from nowhere, this drive to create. At that stage, I had several songs that needed finishing, and we got through all of those first. After that, I wrote some of the verses for ‘Blue’, and for a song called ‘Dragonfly’, which was a pretty sick tune, even though I didn’t end up using it on the album.