So we decided to withdraw our labour. Anytime we went into the studio they would have owned everything we recorded for perpetuity. So we said we're not going to record for you, you have to let us go. And they wouldn't for five years, they just sat on us. So all we could do was store up songs of which Apple Venus and Wasp Star are the best of that bunch.
Partridge remains unmoved.
I think that record companies would like us to sell more records for them. By touring, by doing the rock and roll game, the tours, the parties, the whole nine yards. Our 'art' for want of a better word, is making records - writing songs and making records. I think we do that better than most other people. I think we make quite good records.