Every songwriter has a different angle from which they write. I’ve always been a very emotional person, and I think my angle has often been to capture the sense of that emotion, whatever it might be. When, as has been the case for a lot of my songwriting career, the emotions are of a darker nature then that tends to find its way into the songs.

Looking back through the years, there is a fair bit of melancholy in the music and lyrics I made, even though I often attempted to break out of that mould. But people identify with songs of all shapes and sizes, and the darker songs can often help folk who are experiencing that darkness to feel less alone.

Fog is a song that captures a particular kind of emotion. That moment on the wrong side of despair in everything. Yourself and the world. But there is nothing inside you to feel anything anymore. I’m proud of this song because it does capture that. And the recording is one of my favourites from my whole archive.

These days I’m less bound up in the maelstrom of emotional flood tides. It’s a lot happier place to be. But I still haven’t written the kind of song that encapsulates a pure sense of joy. A song that is the opposite of Fog. Maybe I haven’t got that kind of song in me. At least yet. But I hope to write it one day.


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