Fran Healy has revealed he was worried about losing his ability to write songs.

The Travis frontman underwent a programme of anti-depression hypnotherapy, but feared that the treatment would affect his creative output by altering his basic mood.

"I wasn't really comfortable talking about this at the time it came out, but 12 Memories was about going into therapy and the record was the therapy sessions," he said. "So I had three months of hypnotherapy instead, where you went back and fixed your memories. Because I'm the biggest blab, I will confide in everyone. But my worry about going into therapy was, what if I can't write songs anymore because I fixed the thing that makes me do it."