One Direction star Harry Styles, who was earlier romantically linked to celebrities like Taylor Swift, Caroline Flack and Kendall Jenner, says he "hasn't dated" anyone for a long time.

Styles said his hectic work schedule has kept him away from a relationship, but added that he would be taking a whole new approach to dating in the future.

"I haven't dated in a long time really because I went away to do the movie then did the album, so I haven't in a while. I have a couple of candles left still though," Styles said.

Talking about what it's like finding dates as a celebrity, Styles said: "I feel like with all of the stuff how people date now with all online stuff I feel like you can do that (Google) with anyone really if you're looking at someone's profile before seeing them it's kinda the same.

"I used to (research dates), then I said I'm not going to do that anymore, it's impossible to go in without a perception of someone and you've never met them and I started feeling like that was wrong and weird."