Florence Welch felt "very unstable" during her year off.
The British singer took a step back from her career in 2014 but is now back with band Florence + the Machine and their new album How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful.
While some might think it was a relaxing break, it was actually a very different story for the 28-year-old.
"It was a bit of a crash landing in a sense. It was a funny time, I've been so used to [having] a gig at the end of every day," she admitted to BBC Radio 1's Zane Lowe.
"In the year off, I was still going out and going to events. Something wasn't quite right; I was spiralling a little bit. I wasn't making myself very happy. I think I just felt very unstable.
"I was still going at a pace that you have with touring, but with touring you always have a gig to bring you back to yourself."
Florence also found it hard to adapt to living in a house rather than a series of hotel rooms. She reasons that it's not possible to "trash" your home, as you have to stay there and can't move on.
The new album is out this summer and was produced by Markus Dravs, who has worked with Arcade Fire and Coldplay. He called Florence in for a trial run, but things didn't quite go as expected.
"It wasn't a trial run, I got in there in February and he just shut the door and said: 'We're making the record,'" she smiled.
