The most expensive thing I own is that keyboard which cost a thousand quid. I've got 300 quid in the bank and that isn't funny when you've got two kids. I don't own this house. But you see at the same time I don't want to ram our stuff down people's throats and make them gag on our magnificence like some sort of porno star. I want them to discover this vastly ornate musical penis that we have and do with it what they will.
Partridge is by now firmly in an upbeat, mixed-metaphorical mood.
Our music is a very private sensation. It's got nothing to do with PAs, which is why I'll never play live again. It's like a world in miniature within this little box. The confines of a three or four-minute song with verse, chorus middle eight, short solos, that's our canvas. This sounds rather like the contents of one of those old jamboree bags.