Gossip Girl star and musician Leighton Meester says she gets inspiration for her music from her love life.

“I’ve written a couple of songs about real things in my life, real heartache. I don’t feel that way now, but when I look back I’m like, ‘Oh wow, I really remember that’, and that puts it in perspective so well,” the 24-year-old said.

On the personal nature of her lyrics she says: “Since I’ve written everything, people can see a window into me and how I feel about certain things.”

Meester says her album is “a mixture of the past four or five years of my life”, Popeater reports.

The performer, who plays socialite Blair Waldorf in Gossip Girl, recently released the single Your Love is A Drug and opened up about what she hopes listeners draw from her songs.

“If you love it, you don’t necessarily care about the commercial success of something, as long as it’s quality. That’s how I also feel about music, I just want it to be good, I want people to get a sense of me through my music.”

Source: Monsters And Critics