“You can tune out most negative comments, but every now and again, one will get you,” Zayn added. “And I’m used to that, even though by and large the internet has been very nice to me throughout my entire career. 

“My point being, it’s still something I kind of signed up for, and it’s part of the territory. So for someone who didn’t ask for it and who’s probably not equipped emotionally to handle total strangers making ruthless comments about their whatever, about their existence, about their appearance, about anything, I just don’t want to subject people in my life to that.

“And there’s the other aspect of it, which is not everything needs to be commodified in a way that I’m using it to sort of leverage for popularity. Like, ‘Oh here. Let me give you access to a window of my personal life so that you could like me more [or] so that you could connect with me more.'”