New York, Oct. 25 -- Ariana Grande recently shared how working on 'Wicked' helped her reconnect with her passion for music.

According to PEOPLE, the 32-year-old singer, while speaking in an interview on the Shut Up Evan podcast with Evan Ross Katz said filming the musical gave her a "genuine spark" that reminded her of why she loves creating songs.

"I felt like a genuine spark, like a reconnection and inspiration and something I mean, maybe I missed it," she said.

"Maybe it's as simple as I missed it," she continued. "But I do feel like you have to miss things in order to learn how to become better, you know what I mean? And I think I learned so much. And then also I genuinely wanted to do it. I just felt like I couldn't not. It was an...