As much as possible I stay away from politics at the moment. I’ve been in that frame of mind for a while. When I wrote this song a few years ago, Too Much Of Everything, as part of an album I made of that title with my friend Les Oman, it was perhaps the beginning of that feeling.

Anyway, ironically, that album was large inspired by the rise of Donald Trump over in the USA. And it could well be that, in a few days, we’ll be right back where we started.

As I say, I’m not paying too much attention. My head can’t cope with it. And to be honest, I think that one of the best things we can do for the world as individuals is to make sure that our own mental wellbeing is as healthy as possible.

We can be believing all the right things, doing all the right things, saying all the right things, but if we’re miserable, we’re going to make the people around us unhappy too. Miserable people tend to make for a miserable world.

Les and I bumped into each other a couple of days ago, funnily enough beside the cashpoint in Campbeltown where our first album began in the form of a conversation we had back then. The subject of a new album came up. The possibility that there was going to be (already is to be honest) more than enough material to sing about.

I don’t know how I feel about it. I don’t know if I can engage with the subject matter enough. A lot less of everything in life has been my line of direction, and maybe that could be a starting point for something. We’ll see.

Discover Fee Feeling Overwhelmed

ps. and here’s the album