Singer and Hollywood actor Justin Timberlake has blamed the press for saying he planned to bow out of music.

During an interview with MTV News, the 'SexyBack' sensation explained that he has never claimed to be on the verge of retirement from the industry, but media reports constantly suggest that he is so it's hard to set the record straight:

"You're the ones who stopped talking about me as a musician. You guys act like I said I've retired. I can tell you this, when I'm ready to say something, you always know that I'll say it in the biggest possible way, it really comes from the heart."

He added that he'll "be ready" to make new hits when the time is right: "Making movies and making music, they have a lot of similarities, but I can tell you that while they both come from honest places, music for me is the thing that comes most naturally to me."

"It doesn't bother me. I'm really patient. It's not about them. [My music] comes from a pure place. If anything I'm honouring it in the best way that I know how, but when it's time I'll be ready."

Watch the video for the entertaining song 'Motherlover', on which Timberlake collaborated with The Lonely Island, here: