To everyone in England, everybody in America is either John Wayne or Farrah Fawcett. Perhaps America should bend more than we should. For some bands, it's so important to be successful, they'll sacrifice their own musical satisfaction to that end. For us, it's not essential that we break here. We're not gonna worry about it.
Musical satisfaction comes first.
And, if financial rewards result from staying along our own course, all good and well. What XTC is is a band in the classic British pop mold, stretching back to the Beatles, Kinks and Small Faces. Between Andy Partridge and Colin Moulding, it has two distinct songwriters who excel in different areas. And only Andy ever went to art-school. Our families are quite poor, but we've all got the other sort of tendencies, too.