Zayn Malik in Paper Magazine's Summer Issue 2016
Get Lost in Zayn Malik's Beautiful Eyes With His Smoldering Paper Magazine Shoot
![On his album, Mind of Mine, being about sex: "It wasn't a conscious decision to make [the album] sexual or refer to sex. But I just found out that a lot of situations that I was in were quite sexual situations -- all of the time. I enjoyed singing about [sex], clearly."
On why he's taking horseback riding lessons with girlfriend Gigi Hadid: "Because my girlfriend rides a little bit. Actually, that's an understatement. She rides very well, and she has since she was a kid. She wants me to do it with her, and I'm not good. But I'm learning, and it's fun. My first lesson was on a really old horse that didn't move very much, so it wasn't that scary. She was on the other horse, the one that moved a lot more. She was jumping over hurdles and I just sat there like, 'OK, this is freaky.'"](https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/ps-image-unavailable.png "On his album, Mind of Mine, being about sex: \"It wasn't a conscious decision to make [the album] sexual or refer to sex. But I just found out that a lot of situations that I was in were quite sexual situations -- all of the time. I enjoyed singing about [sex], clearly.\"
On why he's taking horseback riding lessons with girlfriend Gigi Hadid: \"Because my girlfriend rides a little bit. Actually, that's an understatement. She rides very well, and she has since she was a kid. She wants me to do it with her, and I'm not good. But I'm learning, and it's fun. My first lesson was on a really old horse that didn't move very much, so it wasn't that scary. She was on the other horse, the one that moved a lot more. She was jumping over hurdles and I just sat there like, 'OK, this is freaky.'\"")
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