Dido has spoken about getting writer's block after having her first child.
The singer, mother to 2-year-old Stanley, also addressed the five-year gap between her third album Safe Trip Home and fourth record Girl Who Got Away.
She told the Daily Express: "You always think you're making music, then suddenly four years has passed.
"Obviously I had a baby, and I was doing various things, then after Stanley came along I didn't do anything pretty much for the first year. I just hung out with him."
Dido added: "I couldn't write anything anyway, all I could hear in my head was the jingle to The Wiggles. I remember my husband saying to me, 'I don't know how you're ever going to write another song again'."
The 'Life For Rent' singer also spoke about the perils of motherhood. She said: "You find yourself singing these nursery rhymes all day, then you're sitting at the piano, and you can't clear them out.
"It's strange now, juggling motherhood and my career. It's like balancing two completely different entities."
She also talked of how motherhood has changed her songwriting style, saying: "What a track needs is dark and light, loneliness, and maybe a solitary feeling within it. But you never feel lonely again when you have a child, I've definitely reassessed how I write."
Dido recently unveiled her brand new single 'NYC', lifted from her upcoming Greatest Hits collection, to be released on November 25.
Listen to 'NYC' below:
