In terms of my professional career, I suppose I was quite new to songwriting at the time of doing Lay It All On Me. I’d only done Waiting All Night with Rudimental on their first album, a song with my brother [John Newman] called Blame with Calvin Harris and a few other songs.

Me and, Jonny Ghostwriter [aka Jonny Harris], spent many, many hours sitting in his studio with a piano just going round and round trying to write really ...