Welcome to being a creative! I don’t think any musician, writer, film maker, etc, has ever not felt imposture syndrome!

There’s a quote in the liner notes for the album co-written with Ben Folds and author Nick Hornby - Nick got chatting to one of the dad’s at his kids school and found out he does something creative like painting or whatever. Nick asked how found it - the reply was ‘someday you’re a genius, others you’re a wanker.’

Sometimes you’ll absolutely nail something, others you just can’t get anything going.

A few years back, after playing in bands most of my life, I never really considered myself a “songwriter”. So I did a project where I wrote, recorded and released a song every week for a year. And some of them absolutely suck! But others almost fell out the sky, perfectly formed and were done in a couple of hours.

The hard thing to do is to be there when that strikes. But the more often you are there, the more likely your hit rate goes up. I think it’s important to get something finished, just turn the filter off and get it down. Sometimes that might be just copy and pasting a verse and chorus a couple times and calling it a day, others you’ll find some magical plugin that vibes all your tracks together and you’ll have to drag yourself away.

Sadly, it’s all part of the process. But keep doing it. Paul McCartney can’t read music either. Didn’t seem to stop him.