Zayn Malik has revealed he doesn't want to talk about being a Muslim for fear of offending people.
The 23-year-old singer decided to stay quiet about his religion in the past, especially during his time in boyband One Direction, because he worries about people's reactions.
Asked if he would talk about it in the future, he said: "Who knows? There may be a time where I feel like I have something to say about a certain topic and I'm educated enough and armed with the exact information I need before I make a statement that doesn't offend anybody. Then I will do that.
He added: "But in today's day and age, it's very hard to make any sort of statement that doesn't offend somebody. I don't want to throw stones out of a river that's already raging.
"You know what I’m saying? It’s doing its thing by itself. I don’t need to put any input in there. I’ll just leave everything to itself."
The singer, who quit One Direction after over four years of chart success in March 2014, also admitted he "rebelled" against the strict restrictions that were placed on himself and former bandmates Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, Harry Styles and Niall Horan over the way they looked.
He said: "There were certain restrictions in terms of the way that we could come outside of that young teen boy look.
