TeenPeople.com interviews Hilary Duff

Hilary talks about her album, her break-up, and her post-break-up experience with TeenPeople.com:

TeenPeople.com: Your sound on Dignity is very different from what we’ve heard before, too. It’s decidedly more adult.
Hilary: It is still pop, but it is very different for me. It’s got some Indian vibes, Balinese beats, a little bit of hip-hop and dance-pop, so it sounds kind of ’80s. It’s very all over the place. And that’s my taste in music. So it was really fun for me to put all those elements together and really be a part of creating it this time around. This record is just really honest. All the things that I wrote about are things that I deal with, things I want to talk about. It fits where I am in my life.

TeenPeople.com: For a long time, you didn’t discuss your relationship with Joel with the media. What made you decide to finally open up?
Hilary: It’s not my job to talk about my relationship. I didn’t want that and neither did [Joel], so we tried to keep it quiet. Because it is so personal. But I think the more you try to keep something quiet, the more people want to know about it. After a while, we said, ‘Okay, whatever, yeah, we’re together. What about it?’ And obviously it’s fun. You want to be able to go places with your boyfriend and not keep things secret. But it’s just hard when people are so invasive.

TeenPeople.com: Have you been dating since the split?
Hilary: I have been on a couple of dates. And it’s just strange for me. It’s hard. I’ve never really dated before. But it’s just nice to be independent. You feel kind of empowered and free to do whatever you want and make decisions based on what you want to do and not what’s good for you and another person. So I’m not striving for it, but if it happens, it happens. If I meet someone that’s cool, but I just don’t want to want to rush into things again.

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Hilary Duff, Dignity, Hilary, Joel Madden, Nicole Richie