Hilary Duff Ready to Date With Love, and Preview of Her New Songs

Hilary Duff says she and ex-boyfriend Joel Madden still speak to each other, but that she’s excited to start playing the field and jump into dating.

Appearing on Ryan Seacrest’s Los Angeles radio show Thursday morning, the now single actress and singer said dating "is fun. I kind of feel like a guy, like I can do it now." She added, laughing, "But I feel kind of wrong at the same time."

She also revealed that she’d recently been on a date with an unnamed suitor, which she said was a unique experience for her.

"I’ve never gotten to (date) before, so it’s kind of exciting," she said. "I’ve always just had a boyfriend, you know? I’m young!"

Duff, 19, said her breakup with Madden, the lead singer of Good Charlotte, late last year, after two and half years together, wasn’t bitter. "There was nothing – no fight, no ’He did this, I did this,’ " she said. "It was just time for people to move on and do different things."

They still keep in touch, she added. "I had a really great relationship with him, and we still have a great relationship, which is really good and unusual. He’s a good person, and I always will care about him."

Asked how long she might go before getting into another serious relationship, she wouldn’t say. "What if I meet someone that I really am into, and they’re really into me, and I’m feeling it and I’m going for it?" she said.

Duff was on the KIIS-FM program to debut the song "With Love" from her upcoming record, Dignity. She said the title for the record came from her experience living the showbiz life.

"I feel like dignity is something that you can’t just have, you know, you have to work on having," she said. "And I feel like I have it a little. … The album is so personal and talks about so many experiences I’ve had – good ones and bad ones – and (dignity) is something I always hope to have and strive to have."

The album, which has not yet been completed, is due in stores April 3.

Below is the Radio interview Ryan Seacrest did with Hilary Duff, which includes a play of the song Dignity

Lyrical transcription of the song With Love after the jump…

This one was easily the hardest since it’s hard to hear exactly what she’s singing (especially in the second verse) or if any of the phrasing makes sense at all :/ but here are the lyrics, based on the version we heard from the radio rip yesterday.

I don’t mind you telling me
what’s been on your mind lately
I don’t mind you speaking up
I know sometimes I can be
all wrapped up and into me
I can be in such a rush

Just slow me down
slow me down
Tell me tomorrow
everything’ll be around
Just slow me down
slow me down
You’re the one who keeps me on the ground….

Baby can you be tough
Say enough is enough
You can even be blunt
Just do it with love, love, love, love
You can tell Me I’m wrong
That I’m comin’ on way too strong
Don’t think I’ll be crushed
Just do it with love, love, love, love

Just do it with love, love, love, love
Just do it with love….

I can take your honesty
All your words weigh heavily
If you do ‘mute’(?) all the time
I want to be there for you
The way you’ve been for me
Always helped me walk the line

And slow me down
slow me down
I know you will always be around….

Baby can you be tough
Say enough is enough
You can even be blunt
Just do it with love, love, love, love
You can tell Me I’m wrong
That I’m comin’ on way too strong
Don’t think I’ll be crushed
Just do it with love, love, love, love

All this time we’re fighting with each other
Now here I am, leaning on your shoulder
I can tell you baby that you’re right (you’re right), I’m wrong (I’m wrong)
When I am weak, I know you’re stong


Baby can you be tough
Say enough is enough
You can even be blunt
Just do it with love, love, love, love
You can tell Me I’m wrong
That I’m comin’ on way too strong
Don’t think I’ll be crushed
Just do it with love, love, love, love


Baby can you be tough
Say enough is enough
You can even be blunt
Just do it with love, love, love, love
You can tell Me I’m wrong
That I’m comin’ on way too strong
Don’t think I’ll be crushed
Just do it with love, love, love, love

Just do it with love, love, love, love
Just do it with love….
Just do it with love, love, love, love
Just do it with love…. (echoes)

Just do it with love….

that’s all that was heard before Ryan turned off the song.