Singer-songwriter Bruno Mars has revealed that he has a trusty team behind him that he relies on for advice when working on new material. 

The superstar has just been crowned Billboard's Artist of the Year 2013 and told the magazine that his songwriting team, known as The Smeezingtons, are great at helping him to recognise what is great and what might be too corny:

"I may say, 'Yo, I like this song,'. But if Ari or Phil (Ari Levine and Philip Lawrence) say it's the corniest shit they've ever heard, I trust them. And the other way around. We all know when we're onto something, like with 'Locked.'"

"It was, 'Man, there's a good pocket on this song right now. Let's keep it going.' We also know when something's not jelling. And that's the thing you pray you will always have. You can't believe that everything you do is hot."

He also opened up about a potential new album and added that he's content performing his current material at the moment so plans for a new record are up in the air: "There's going to be a point on the tour where I'll wish I had a new song or 10 more songs to sing. That's when the excitement comes back and you start working that muscle, ready to get back into the studio."

"But I'm good right now. If you put me in the studio, I don't know what I'd come up with, because I'm so enjoying this moment right now."