Lorde [1] is back on our social timelines to promote her new album Solar Power [2], but don't get used to it. The New Zealand singer-songwriter joined The Late Late Show with James Corden to chat with the host about why she decided to take a much-needed break from social media as a way to stop procrastinating, preserve her own original thoughts, and get back to songwriting.

"You've recently taken a massive break from social media. You've completely cut it out of your life," Corden asked Lorde [3]. "Why did you do this, was it difficult, and what do you do instead?"

"I did it because I thought my brain wasn't working very well anymore," Lorde [4] revealed. "It was horribly difficult, hardest thing I've ever done, and still horribly difficult every day. It would be like stopping eating sugar, for me, I still eat tons of sugar and if I don't have sugar I feel insane. And the first little while of not being on social media was totally like that. I was so crabby, I felt so disconnected, but it's how my life is now. But I will say, the brain will make anything into a social network. I got rid of Twitter. I got rid of Instagram. I got rid of Facebook. I blocked YouTube, that was a big one, I was like 'this is kind of a social network'. But now, my social network is the New York Times cooking app. So I go on the New York Times cooking app and I look at the comments and I'm like, 'Oh, what's this person saying', and that's become a source of community for me."

Watch Lorde's full interview for The Late Late Show With James Corden above.