'I'm doing fine' insists Macca

Paul McCartney has reassured his army of fans “I’m doing fine” following the collapse of his second marriage.

The ex-Beatle, who is locked in a divorce battle with wife Heather Mills, said music “sustains” him.

McCartney, 64, told his supporters “it’s OK” as he launched his new classical album Ecce Cor Meum (Behold My Heart).

McCartney said the album contains his first wife Linda’s “spirit” and his grief over the loss of her to breast cancer in 1998.

McCartney began composing it before she died but had to stop work on it for two years due to his grief.

At a press conference in central London today he said of the album: “It has a lot of my feelings for her in it.”

But asked about how he has been coping in recent months, Sir Paul, who announced a split with his wife in May, said: “I’m doing fine thank you. It’s OK.

“I’m enjoying music. It’s something I love to do. It’s something that sustains me. So I’m enjoying it, finishing this project off and also the next one.”

He said the lyrics to the album were inspired by what he believes is important in life, love, honesty and kindness.

McCartney said: “When I came around to thinking ’what do I want the words to say?’ I just wrote down a whole load of things that interest me about truth, about love, about honesty and about kindness. Stuff that I thought was important in life.”

Wearing jeans, a blue shirt and a pin-stripe jacket, Sir Paul said of his fourth classical album: “I started it when Linda was alive, originally we went to Magdalen College together, so it has a lot my feelings for her in it.

“When she died it stalled me. I took a year or so before I could get back into it. The interlude in the middle is a particularly sad melody and is what got me going again,” he said.

“Her spirit is very much in this. It would have been her birthday yesterday so it’s very appropriate.”

The star wrote the piece after being invited by Anthony Smith, then president of Magdalen College, to compose something for a new concert hall at the institution.