Ashlee Simpson: I'm Not Working With Pete Wentz & Robert Smith

Ashlee Simpson has quashed rumours that she’s set to work with The Cure’s Robert Smith and her boyfriend Pete Wentz on her new album.

On the unlikely pairing with Robert Smith, Simpson maintained that this was nothing more than rumours and she was shocked when she heard it.

Speaking to the Rolling Stone, she said of the Smith incident:  “That was never true. I was like, ‘Oh my God, that is so not true and so embarrassing!’ I am a huge fan, but would never expect to write with Robert Smith from the Cure.

“I mean, that would be a dream, but nothing that I would ever say. I was dying when I read that. I was like, ‘No! He’s gonna think I’m crazy.’”

Referring to the possibility of a Pete Wentz collaboration, she simply stated “We both keep our music separate from each other.”

The good news is that she’s promised a darker albums full of lyrical ambiguities – just like Fiona Apple’s: “I think everything is personal in your own way. And for me, it’s fun to listen to a record and not fully know exactly who they’re talking about or what they’re talking about or what point it was in their life.

“You gotta keep people guessing. I listened to a Fiona Apple record and I had no idea what she was talking about.”