Emeli Sande plans to take a six-month break from the spotlight after performing at the 2013 BRIT Awards

The 25-year-old singer - who leads this year's nominations and is up for British Female, British Album for 'Our Version Of Events' and her songs 'Next To Me' and the collaboration with Labrinth, 'Beneath Your Beautiful' are up for British Single - has revealed she wants to take some time off before starting to work on her next album.

The Scottish star told The Sun newspaper: "I'm happy to leave the limelight for a bit and lay low.

"I'm going to be in the studio working on my next album. I just want to make more music, as that's my favourite thing."

Emeli - who won the BRITs Critics' Choice Award in 2012 - is closing the awards ceremony in London's O2 Arena, while Robbie Williams, One Direction, Mumford & Sons, Muse, Taylor Swift and Justin Timberlake area are also set to perform.

The singer previously spoke about how much winning a BRIT award meant to her last year.

She said: "This time last year, I was excited but very nervous. I wish now I had just enjoyed it."

Mumford & Sons and Alt-J are also nominated for three awards each with Rita Ora, Muse, Plan B, Jessie Ware, Ben Howard, Coldplay, Paloma Faith and Olly Murs all up for two awards.

Rihanna will battle it out for the International Female gong with Alicia Keys, Cat Power, Lana Del Rey and Taylor Swift while Jack White, Gotye, Michael Buble, Frank Ocean and Bruce Springsteen are all up for International Male.

The Rolling Stones will are nominated in the British Live Act category against Coldplay, Muse, Mumford & Sons and The Vaccines. The nomination makes them the only act to be nominated in both this year's awards and at the first BRIT Awards in 1977.

Amy Winehouse received a posthumous nomination in the British Female Solo category and will go up against Jessie, Paloma, Emeli and Bat For Lashes.