Carey: 'I wrote 'Hero' in the loo'

Mariah Carey admits she finds inspiration in the strangest places - her hit song 'Hero' was written in the bathroom.

The superstar singer was using the toilet during a break from recording when the idea for the track came to her.

She gets up in the early hours of the morning to write songs - because she dreams up tunes in her sleep.

Carey tells UK TV show This Morning: "Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and have an idea and have to get up and record it straight away before I forget it.

"Or with Hero, I was in the studio and someone was telling me about this film 'Hero' with Dustin Hoffman in it. I took a walk to the loo and when I came back I had this idea for a song, and that was what then became 'Hero'."