'New Girl' actress and singer Zooey Deschanel has revealed that the songs she writes for her duo She & Him aren't usually based on personal experience.

Speaking to the AP, the beauty explained that she doesn't like to draw on her own life for inspiration and her recent divorce from Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard hasn't made its way into any tracks so far:

"That is not what I do. I think that lovelorn is a more interesting emotion; I tend to be interested in that emotion more than I tend to be interested in the emotion of happy content love, so my big influences have always been a lot of different things."

"It is the same thing for when people ask me, when I act, am I drawing from my own experience? Well no, I would run out of experiences really fast. I find things that are interesting, moving, maybe people I know or their emotions or movies or other songs, even just a thought or a feeling."

Deschanel added that the other half of her musical act, M. Ward, has the same view and while they don't dislike penning tracks about intimate moments, they just prefer writing about other subjects: "Not that there is anything wrong with confessional songwriting, there are plenty of people that do that I admire. I think it is great, it just isn't how I do things."