Zayn Malik has revealed that he wrote 48 songs for his debut album 'Mind of Mine'.

The singer penned in his upcoming autobiography Zayn that it was a "nightmare" to chose the 2016 record's final tracklisting.

In a new excerpt released by Fader, the former One Direction man said:

"When I’d finally finished recording 'Mind of Mine', I realised I had put down 48 songs. I couldn’t believe we had so many.

"It was a nightmare choosing the final list, especially because all the songs meant a lot to me, and I procrastinated as much as I could before making my decision. In the end, it all came together; the songs chosen for the album spoke for themselves."

Malik added that he took inspiration from The Beatles' more experimental material when writing the music.

He said: "I’d been listening to a lot of tracks by the Beatles when I was working on it. I had really got into some of their more psychedelic stuff, like ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’ from the 1967 album 'Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band'.

"The piano chords at the start of ‘Fool for You,’ and the guitars, were inspired by the Beatles’ sound... I like to draw on the influence of all sorts of music and artists."

Malik will release Zayn via Penguin on November 1.

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