“When things are going wrong, the only thing you can do as an artist is write your way out. The bottom line is, it’s all about your music: you have to keep remembering that you’re only ever three minutes away from changing your life.”

Craig David knows how it feels to switch from a hot property to a figure of fun.

As the noughties dawned, his long-term global superstardom seemed inevitable. David’s debut album Born To Do It, released in ...