Beyonce feels like a mermaid

Beyonce Knowles feels like a “mermaid”.

The 29-year-old singer enjoys spending time by the ocean because it makes her feel like a new person and gives her “perspective” on her life.

“I’m always happiest when I’m surrounded by water, I feel like a mermaid, I think I was a mermaid,” she said.

“The ocean makes me feel really small and it puts my whole life in perspective. It reminds me I’m a very little piece of this huge earth and it humbles me and grounds me .It makes me feel almost like I’ve been baptised and I’m born again when I get out of the ocean.”

Beyonce who is married to Jay-Z took a so-call year off from work in 2010 after being urged to take a break by her mother Tina and admits the experiences she had left her feeling revitalized.

“After I finished the last tour, I was a bit overwhelmed and overworked and my mother was the person who preached to me almost harassed me every day, saying, ‘You really need to live your life and open your eyes, you don’t want to wake up with no memories and never being able to see the world’,” she said.

“I never realized I needed a year off and I never realized I didn’t know how to take a year off.

“I went scuba diving in the red sea and the coral was spectacular, it was unreal that something that beautiful exists and I was so close to it.

“I was in such a great peaceful state it inspired purity. I was able to spend time with my family and pick my nephew up from school and it gave me time to reflect and think about my life.”

Despite enjoying her time off, the Run The World (Girls) hitmaker admits she is still a “workaholic” who hates having to switch off.

“I am a workaholic and I don’t believe in no, or that I need to sleep. If I’m not sleeping, then nobody is sleeping,” she said.