Songstress Hilary Duff has opened up about her new album, 'Sparks', and confessed that it changed from being something that was 'super heavy' into a collection of songs that are more accessible and relatable. 

The beauty split from her husband, Mike Comrie, last year and admitted that the break-up influenced her songwriting, but she had to actively veer away from the darkness that was coming out in the tracks because she is more of a 'sunshine' girl:

"My album is a range of stuff - I would say definitely in the beginning when I started writing, it was pretty heavy, coming out of my past year of - life. It's changed since then, which is good because I think that the overall theme too - me, personally, I'm not this super heavy girl. You know? I'm one for the sunshine, so it's shifted a lot and it feels a lot better to me."

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Watch a clip from Duff's recent interview with Ellen DeGeneres here: