In more good Zayn content out this week, he's covering the new issue of music magazine NME. (Really, though, any Zayn content that includes a picture — or multiple pictures — of his face is good Zayn content; him getting sassy is a bonus.) And remember the time he told Billboard how sad he was about the fact that only one of his former One Direction besties had been in touch since his quitting the band? Well, he's got more to say on this subject now, and this time he's naming names!

"I'm still probably the closest to Liam," Zayn says in a newly released excerpt from the full interview. "We talk on the phone... We haven't met up in a long time so we want to meet up." As for Harry, Louis, and Niall? "I tried to have contact," Zayn adds, "but nobody's reached out. So... whatever."

In other teaser quotes, Zayn explains his sexy "mysterious" public persona and says it's his way of staying sane. "I know how the media works," he adds, and clearly he does because he keeps the good quotes coming — Zayn is so salty these days that he's basically a condiment.