The 25-year-old singer admitted having her heart broken and her days of drinking "too much" provided the inspiration for her best-selling album `Born To Die` but says writing new material could be difficult as her life is much calmer now.

She told America`s Vogue magazine: "Even though I can`t be with that person anymore, I still want to honour those memories. I felt like falling in love changed me, neurologically and the record is about being faithful in my mind to the memory of that particular person.

"I`m in contact with his mother. He`s somewhere else but he`s around.

"The album is a tribute to living life on the wild side. I`m sort of kidding because I`m not that wild any more ... I used to drink a lot. Too much. I haven`t had a drink for seven years now."

The reformed wild child - who recorded an album under the name Lizzy Grant in 2009 - has spent the last five years rehabilitating herself by doing charity work and although her new record has been a success, she admits she may quit music again because she has nothing left to say.

She said: "Homeless outreach, drug and alcohol rehabilitation - that`s been my life for the past five years.

"My friends are a core group I met through work, and they never really knew I was a singer, because nothing was ever happening. I consider myself coming out of retirement as a singer at this point.

"I don`t think I`ll write another record. What would I say? I feel like everything I want to say I`ve said already."
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