Sam Kirk of Rother FM in Rotherham, England caught up with Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson of One Direction recently. The boys talked about their Brit award, how the tour is going, their tour with Big Time Rush in America, how fans from around the world have headed to the UK to see them perform and they wrapped up with a round of quick fire questions.

On the tour, Liam said:

It’s been fantastic so far. We’re over halfway now so we’re kind of in the swing of things now. It’s been great.

On touring with Big Time Rush, Harry said:

The fact that we haven’t really been over and done anything much there and whenever we go over there’s fans at the hotel and airport. Some of them travel a really long way. It’s going to be great for us to go over and meet some more of them and go around a bit more. We only go over to one place whenever we go over, so it will be nice to travel the country a bit more.

On fans travelling internationally to watch them in the UK, Liam said:

It’s been amazing to so on tour as well how many fans have come from overseas to see the shows. We’ve had some fans from Sweden, some fans from France and some fans from America. All over, so it’s been amazing.

Listen to the interview at rotherfm.co.uk.

Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson of One Direction spoke with The Paul Foster Breakfast Show at 96.9 Viking FM in East Yorkshire, England a while back. The boys talked about the opening week numbers for their ‘Up All Night’ debut LP, not seeing much of the judges besides Simon Cowell since the show, being inside Simon’s luxury home and how a fan got their attention thanks to a maxi pad stuck to their tour bus.

On their album’s first week sales being the biggest of 2011 in the UK, Harry said:

Especially coming from ‘The X Factor’, it gets a lot of bad press. It’s important for us to show what we can do, so it’s a big and very good achievement that we feel we’ve done with the album and feel happy that people are appreciating what we’re doing.

On their debut album:

It’s very similar to the single. That was the benchmark for us and we just kind of based it around that, but there’s some interesting stuff for everyone I think.

On staying in touch with the judges, Louis said:

Well Simon obviously makes the last call on absolutely everything we do, so he has a massive input on us and our record. But the other judges, not really. I went to watch ‘The X Factor’ auditions earlier this year, so I saw Louis (Walsh) then, but not really had time to see any of them.

On the inside of Simon’s home, Louis joked:

We just found as many expensive things as we could, and they’ve actually been on eBay and sold.

On how a sanitary towel (maxi pad) was the strangest thing a fan sent them:

It had the Twitter name on them and was stuck to the window. Maybe they ran out of paper so they thought they could write on that. It did grab our attention clearly, because we’re talking about it right now.

Listen to the interview via Soundcloud below.

Niall Horan from One Direction was interviewed by Nick Craig of Channel 955 in Detroit, where the boy band member talked about how things have changed since they last were in America opening for Big Time Rush, how their families have been following their success, Niall being a fan of Justin Bieber, what he looks for in a girl and how Demi Lovato is his celebrity crush.

On how things have changed since their last U.S. visit:

When we were in America last time we were opening up for Big Time Rush. It was a long slag of going to every radio station, every city, and doing all the press interviews, trying to spread the word about us, and I suppose it kinda worked. Before we went on that trip we didn’t even have a tour. We were supporting another act, and now we’ve got our own tour, so it’s crazy.

On how their families have reacted to their success:

I don’t get to go home much, so it’s basically phone and Skype and stuff. They’re like, “We see you in the newspapers, we see you online and it’s crazy what is going on”. They are obviously finding it crazy, so they can only imagine how we feel.

On being a fan of Justin Bieber:

I’m a Justin Bieber fan and I’ve heard some of his new stuff when we hung out in LA and stuff. His new album is gonna be really big, and he is a really good guy. I hung out with him in London as well. He’s a nice guy.

On his ideal girl:

I like someone who has a good sense of humor. I hate someone who is kind of like a downer in life. Someone that’s cute, has nice eyes. Someone that I can hold a conversation with. Some people you have to struggle to get a few words out of them.

His celebrity crush:

Demi Lovato.. She’s a beautiful girl. Oh, and Megan Fox is hot.

Watch the interview via channel955.com below.

Nathanael Cooper of News.com.au went backstage for an exclusive interview with One Direction members Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson. The boys talked about whether they’d seen much of Brisbane, being greeted by loads of girls everywhere they travel, reaching number one with their ‘Up All Night’ debut album in several countries and the dedication shown by their fans.

On having thousands of girls greeting them everywhere, Liam said:

I dunno. It’s been incredible, but it’s something you can never, ever really get used to. It’s not one of those things that… it’s still a surprise when you see that many people outside somewhere. You’re like wow, there’s this many people here. It happens a lot of the time, but our hotel today has been literally crazy. We went out like 5 o’clock this morning to go surfing and there was 10 or 15 people outside and when we got back, there was hundreds.

On going number one in multiple countries with their debut album, Louis said:

Let me tell you, we’re really happy about Australia as well, because this is the first place we’ve gone number one for two weeks with the album, so that is something that is pretty special to us.

On the dedication of their fans, Niall said:

We worked very hard on our album. We wanted to be proud of it ourselves, and you know our fans have shown their dedication over and over again, and they’ve got some great chart positions for us recently and we’re very very happy.

On whether they’ve ever taken their fans for granted, Zayn said:

Definitely not. We’ve appreciated our fans and we love the fact that they’re so dedicated and so supportive. Obviously like Louis was just saying, our album is number one for the second week in a row, and it’s amazing to get that support from our fans.

Watch it below.

For the very first time on Malaysian Radio, Liam Payne spoke to Jin and Ryan to answer questions from the fans. The One Direction member talked about their success, the dedication of their fans on Twitter, how the music industry been to him, never getting used to the size of their audiences, how the fans have been good when it comes to his dating life and how he can go out and remain relatively incognito.

On their fans Twitter dedication:

That’s the sort of thing we see all the time. The fans and the dedication and the work they put into getting things trending and tweeting out things is absolutely amazing. Just this week we’ve been nominated for a Brit award, which is like a huge award in England for music, so we’re just so happy. The fans are amazing. They’re the best fans in the world.

If the music industry has been everything he’d hoped for:

Yeah it’s been amazing, we’ve had such a great year together. We’ve been in the band now 18 months, and I’ve made four new best mates. We’re travelling the world doing what we love, singing, and it’s amazing we’re gonna get to see all these places like Malaysia. Come out there and visit people and they’re going to enjoy our music, so it’s been fantastic. I’ve been on Twitter for a while and you see fans hashtagging where they’re from, and there’s so many people in Malaysia. It’s great to see.

On performing for thousands of people:

I don’t think it’s something you can ever get used to. You just kind of really really enjoy it.

On how having so many teen girl fans impacts his dating life:

It has been quite strange. You have to get used to the attention from being in the newspapers and magazines and stuff, but it comes with the job. Some stories will be bad, some stories will be good, but the press have been really nice to us and they haven’t really written many bad stories about us and the fans have been really as well. I’ve had a girlfriend now for just over a year, and the fans have been great about it.

On if he has to wear disguises going out:

I haven’t quite worn a disguise yet. Sometimes I’ll put on a hat if I’m going somewhere, but it’s all about timing really. If you went somewhere and you knew there were gonna be kids around, then you’re gonna get noticed. If you go somewhere where there aren’t the young girls around, you might just get away with it.

Listen to the interview via YouTube below.

MSN Canada asks One Direction fans to challenge group members members Zayn Malik, Liam Payne and Harry Styles to a game of truth or dare after posing a few questions of the trio. The boys were asked about what they like about Canada, if the schedule ever gets tiring, how they figure out who sings different parts of their songs, and their song selection. Liam took the dare to make up a short rap about Harry. Next up was Harry, who took a dare to touch his nose with his tongue. Zayn also went for the dare, where he was challenged to switch clothes with the person to his right, who happened to be some random guy in the room.

On if it ever gets tiring, Liam said:

Not so much that side of it, but kind of the work. We work very hard and we’re very busy all the time, so that gets tiring, but the fans are fun.

On who chooses who sings what parts of a song, Harry said:

We kind of sing loads of bits and see what fits best in the song and what works in the whole thing.

On song choice, Liam said:

We just kind of go with what we like actually. We kind of knew what we wanted early on. We wanted to go with this more rocky sound and then loads of songs came in. They were amazing. We recorded over 80 songs for the album, and we had to choose 12 tracks out of 80, so it was a really, really tough choice. Some of the tracks are that I like may not have made the album. Some of the tracks (Harry) liked might not have made the album, so that’s the most difficult part of it, choosing the songs (that make it), because you’ve heard them so much so it’s like, which ones do we want now?

Check out the interviews and dares below.

Louis Tomlinson of One Direction was on the phone with James Merritt of Free Radio. The boyband member talked about their first Brit Award win in a category that included Adele, dedicating the award to the fans, not knowing they’d win in advance, other artists they saw at the Brits and what fans can expect with the new tour.

On winning a Brit:

We couldn’t believe it. We were looking at the category and the people we were nominated with and to win that award was such a massive honor.

On edging Adele:

It feels strange to beat Adele because that album and that single were just really so massive. We’re massively thankful to the fans who voted.

On dedicating the Brit to their fans:

Of course. That award was voted for by the fans, and we wouldn’t be, coming from the X Factor and voting every week, we would be nowhere without those fans so it is their award.

On whether they knew in advance:

Could you not tell by the look on our faces and the high pitched everyone was when we did the speech? We certainly had no idea. I’m glad. Even if anyone did give a clue, which I don’t think anyone does, I would prefer not to know anyways. It’s better like that.

On whether they did “networking” with other artists:

Not really actually. We just sat around with our team at our table. There were a few people, we met Example, we saw Ed (Sheeran) again. Little Mix were there. People on our label like Labyrinth. Great guy.

On what to expect from the new tour in a year:

By that time I suppose we’ll have a new album. The new album will be out so there will be two albums worth of songs. Maybe some covers and just a much bigger arena kind of style and production on the show that obviously when we did the first tour we were limited in what we could do production wise. Hopefully we’re gonna have a bigger budget and have a show people will remember.

Listen to the interview via Soundcloud below.