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"7", released on Friday, is the 52-year old musician's first
album in four years and comes after he and German-born Klum went
their separate ways in 2012 after seven years of marriage.
"You have a series of events take place and ... at some point
you write about them when you feel compelled to do so," the
singer told Reuters in an interview.
"Obviously there's a kind of digestion period that happens where
you have to insert that period and step away from it for a time
and then come back to it and write objectively as opposed to
subjectively."
Known for his silky voice and hits such as the Grammy Award
winning "Kiss from a Rose", Seal has sold more than 30 million
albums worldwide.
"Some people, when something is weighing on them ... they go and
see a therapist or a psychiatrist or a shrink of some sort. I
write songs and that right there is a very cathartic
experience," Seal said.
"But there are caveats ... It's only cathartic if you are
brutally honest with yourself first and foremost."
Seal reunites with his "Kiss from a Rose" collaborator, producer
Trevor Horn, for "7". The heartbreak theme features in tracks
such as "The Big Love has Died", a ballad about losing someone
close to you.
"It's a reality that's how we feel sometimes ... when we've been
in something that hasn't quite worked out or there was so much
love and now there's a vacuum where that love was," he said.
(Reporting by Rollo Ross in Los Angeles; Writing by Marie-Louise
Gumuchian in London; Editing by Alison Williams)
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