'X Factor' Australia's Natalie Bassingthwaighte: 'I almost quit music'

Natalie Bassingthwaighte has revealed that she almost quit her music career after she became a mother.

The X Factor judge and singer, who welcomed daughter Harper 13 months ago with partner Cameron McGlinchey, said that she was so "content" with motherhood that she didn't want to "pursue" singing again.

Bassingthwaighte told National Features: "I wasn't inspired by music for a long time, I didn't really know where I wanted to go with it or even if I would go back and pursue it. I'd had Harper, I just felt so content with life."

She revealed that an experimental music session with Black Eyed Peas's DJ Poet last Christmas helped her find her inspiration, explaining: "Something clicked and it all felt right. I wanted to get stuck into it again. It's that old thing with music, you can't really let it go once you've done it."

Bassingthwaighte said of her comeback single 'All We Have': "I wanted it to be fun and fearless and fierce. I've touched on those things before, but never really pushed them like I do on this.

"I thought if I did do music again, I wanted to come back with something strong and powerful. This is more me than anything I've ever done."

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Bassingthwaighte also said that Sony executive Jay Springbett, who was found dead in his Sydney apartment earlier this year, was there when she recorded the track a week before his death.

"We were on such a high, we were so excited about the direction my project was going to take," she revealed. "Without him I wouldn't be doing this at all, from Rogue Traders to my solo career to this new phase.

"This track means so much more to me. I feel very emotional about it. [His death] was so sudden and very surreal."

Watch Natalie Bassingthwaighte's 'Someday Soon' video below: