Could he be more ungrateful?!

Zayn Malik sat down with Beats 1's Zane Lowe for his first on-camera interview since parting ways with 1D, and the singer didn't hold back his true feelings about his boy band days in One Direction!

"I always wanted to go, from the first year really. I never really wanted to be in the band. I just gave it a go because it was there at the time," he explained. "When I realized the direction we were going in, mind the pun, with the music, I instantly realized it wasn’t for me because I couldn’t put any input in," he added.

The British heartthrob, who will release his first single "Pillow Talk" on Friday, was writing his own material the whole time! "I had to start thinking about myself, I was always writing anyway even when I was in the band…I always knew. I think the boys kind of knew – in terms of the music – that wasn’t my cup of tea. They obviously didn’t want me to leave, but they couldn’t talk me out of it at that point. I’d already made my mind up," he confessed.

He better pray his music is well-received, or else he looks like a giant idiot for leaving a good thing!