“I used to say I’d never do a cover’s album thinking I would always have masses of material up my sleeve; endless heartache to pour my creativity into and I would be able to wallow in my songwriting for many years to come. But things haven’t quite worked out that way because as time goes on life seems to get simpler and less emotionally challenging. I am finding that years of honing my craft as a writer of ‘songs for the lonely heart’ have left my well a little dry, now that I am more content with who I am and the world around me. “In the past my song writing was always my form of self-therapy. Whenever things got tough (and they frequently were, as I had such a knack for blowing things out of proportion) I could turn to my songwriting, needing it to express all the feelings and emotions I had inside of me and loving the whole process of pouring my heart out, safe in the feeling that ‘nobody understood me’. But my life is very different now and, through a process of different revelations I have had over the last couple of years, I am much happier within my self and I am having to re-learn how to write songs again. “I always maintained it was much harder to write a happy song so now I am faced with the new challenge of songwriting for the love of it, as opposed to songwriting for therapy. Trying to write an honest heartfelt song without looking for the Walsh melancholy twist around the corner has been slightly trying so far, so for this, my fourth album, I decided to record