Maren Morris needs to date - to find musical inspiration
Maren Morris needs to date so she has experience to draw upon in order to write new songs.
Maren Morris needs to date in order to write new songs.
The 'My Church' hitmaker - who came out as bisexual in June and was recently romantically linked to 'Perfect Match' star Justin Assada - admitted it isn't easy to find a new partner but the process has proved to be an inspiration for her new material.
Speaking on the 'Armchair Expert' podcast, she said: "If I'm not going through the s*** show of dating, there is no album.
"The well has to be filled in that way."
Maren and ex-husband Ryan Hurd are parents to four-year-old son Hayes and she's planning to slow down her work commitments in order to be a "good mom".
She said: "I don't wanna be touring 280 days a year. Like, I want to be home. I wanna be a good mom and also have a social life because then I really don't have anything to write about."
The 34-year-old star admitted she was "a little bit nervous" about including 'This is How a Woman Leaves' on her EP 'Intermission' because she knew fans would connect its lyrics to her personal life.
She said: "I had to make a decision on there's a song at the end called 'This is How a Woman Leaves,' and I was a little bit nervous just to put that out. Not because it's untrue to me, but because I'm not in the business of malintent.
"I never write a song to, like, f*** someone over or hurt anyone.
"But at the end of the day, I can't control people's perceptions of the song that they're hearing of mine. With ['This Is How a Woman Leaves'], I could just picture a healing that would happen live.
"If I'm writing the song and I can already envision it live and just crying with strangers, when I go to shows and I'm just a patron in the crowd, the most special thing is just bonding with a bunch of strangers."
Maren recently admitted she had been using dating app Raya in her bid to find love again.
She said on the 'Chicks in the Office' podcast: "[I’m dating] a little bit.
"I mean, I’ve never really dated. Like, I’ve been in two long, monogamous relationships with men, and I never really had this dating phase because I was just always working [and] I ended up with long relationships with people I worked with or had proximity to."
