The Dalai Lama and the Pope both wear Doc Martin Boots. I find that kind of reassuring somehow.

And, Peter, I reckon the producer might have been right for all you know, and not just from the technical point of view. It works that way with singing sometimes - you can get messed up with repeats or other problems, until you aren't there any more, and you go on autopilot. Then maybe you listen in to this stranger singing in your voice, and you think "that's not bad".

It's like when you are throwing stones at a target and yoiu aim carefully, and you miss and miss. Then you get fed up and just chuck it, and you hit it. Or that game with a wooden cup and a ball on a string.

The Dalai Lama could explain it a lot better than me.