Lily Allen has taken a time off from the music scene because she wants to have a baby.

The English recording artist, who is currently dating Sam Cooper, confesses that she has put her career on hold to bear a child.

She also laughed at the claims that she is too young to focus on becoming a mother.

"I don't think I'm that young to have a baby. My mother had me when she was 23. It's difficult as a woman who wants a family," she told Elle magazine.

"Kids take up your whole life, particularly in the first two or three years. So it wouldn't be very responsible of me to commit to doing a world tour if I had a baby."

Last weekend during the Glastonbury Festival in Somerset, South West England, speculations that she was already pregnant surfaced when she avoided cigarettes and alcohol.

An onlooker told BANG Showbiz: "Lily spent the whole night sat on a deck chair wrapped up in a poncho canoodling with Sam.

"She didn't touch a drop of alcohol and not one cigarette passed her lips all night."

Allen, who had a miscarriage with then-boyfriend Ed Simmon's baby in January 2008, recently said that she was going to extend her break from music in the hopes of bearing a child with the first year of her sabbatical.

"It'll be a minimum of four or five years before I make a record again. I'd like to have a child within a year," she said.

"I know what commitment it takes to release an album. I don't think that mixes well with the idea of settling down and having children, which is ultimately my goal and more of a priority than flying around the world."