It's never nice when former bandmates fall out, especially when it comes to One Direction and Zayn Malik.

Which is why when we heard what Liam Payne had to say about his pal today (August 3), we basically cried like a baby.

Chatting to Nick Grimshaw on Radio 1 this morning, Payno opened up about life without Zayn, and just why he quit all those months ago.

"One Direction was never Zayn's sort of music so he kind of always wanted to find something else," he told Grimmy.

Adding: "If your heart's not into something you can't just carry on doing it because of fame and stuff. You have to go and do what you want to do."

As for how the rest of the band are doing?

"He's off doing his own thing at the moment which is cool for him, but it's nice that we've banded together and I feel like we're stronger than ever now actually, which is strange but it's worked out really nicely for everybody."

Liam continued:"Congratulations to him on his new record deal and stuff, it's cool."

But are they still friends?

"There's too much history for there not to be love," he explained.

He even added that him and Zayn did a lot of writing together on songs that we've not even heard yet, which they're now going to give to other artists.