Niall Horan has said he is stepping out of the spotlight when his world tour ends in September.
“I’m going to take a couple of months off after the tour… Then I’ll just write until I’ve got good tunes,” the singer said at a fundraising event on Saturday. “I’m not coming back until I do.”
Horan told The Sun he needs to concentrate on writing new songs for his sophomore solo album.
“Nothing has really come yet. When I’m on tour I get into such a routine,” he explained. “And when you’re writing songs I feel like that needs to be 100 per cent your focus.”
Horan said writing slow songs comes naturally to him but he wants to work on “a bit more of the up-tempo stuff.”
The 24-year-old singer's solo debut Flicker, which was released last October, spawned the hits "This Town" and "Slow Hands."
Horan is set to bring his world tour to Toronto's Budweiser Stage on Sept. 5.