Android 5.0 sync questions on HTC M8

I'm trying to figure out how to set items to individually auto sync.

On the HTC M8 under accounts & sync in both 4.4 and 5.0, I noticed I cannot select items to auto-sync individually. I can only manually sync individual items when I have auto-sync turned off. If I turn on auto-sync, it automatically wants to sync everything under those accounts and Google account which is what I do not want.

I only want certain things under these specific accounts to auto-sync. For instance, all I use is Gmail and Google Play Music. I do not want anything else on my phone to sync to Google, but I can't figure this out since it doesn't ask what I want synced before adding an account.

I know in older versions of android, it always asked what I wanted to have auto-synced and what I didn't when adding the account. I could also go in that account under settings and select what I wanted to auto-sync before turning on the phones sync.

How can I get around everything trying to sync at first, if I cannot even choose what I want to sync when adding a Google account?