Simone Ashley has channelled her "heartbreak" into music

According to Richard Eden's Eden Confidential column for the Daily Mail newspaper, Simone said: "Sometimes I feel a song is storytelling and sometimes songs that were maybe written from a place of heartbreak end up being a dance cry banger.

"One of my songs has been influenced by heartbreak. There was one song that was written from a place of heartbreak.

"It was a really grey weekend when I was writing it, then when we went to the studio, the sun came out and I had a few months of distance from the song and it turned into something really positive."

Simone recently split from her boyfriend Constantin 'Tino' Klein and she previously insisted she's embracing her new "single era".

She told People: "[I am] defining [my] single era as a time that I don't wanna waste away.

"It's about self-growth, and I am looking for someone who is so confident in themselves and is really ready to have an open heart in the same way I do. And I think that's hard to find."

She went on to insist she's not looking for love again right now, adding: "I'm not in a rush. It can be easy to jump into the next thing immediately, which is something that I am choosing not to do.

"I want to take my time to find the right person for me and to work on myself - to grow, and to focus on my work.

"I've got such an incredible year ahead and I'm up to such exciting things,. And I have the most amazing family and friends around me. So I'm working on my heart and on myself and on my confidence."