"You go about the
everyday mundane business of life and lavatory, and
then suddenly a song goes ‘pee-oing’ in
your head, and you have to run to the guitar and get
it out. It's like a feeling of nausea or something -
you’ve just got to get it out when it comes up."
- Andy Partridge, 1987
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"Deadlines can help scare
music out of you. I always get this feeling that I'm
never going to write another song. I'll sit up here
staring at a blank page. The some song will come out
and it's complete...rubbish! Then a few more rubbishy
ones come out. And then, suddenly, whaa! Something
good'll come out. And whoa! Where'd this come
from? It is like crapping; you have to get the
blockage out of the way and then it all comes flowing
out."
- Andy Partridge, 1989
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"I think I've written more
songs on this guitar than any other. It's always
lying aroung behind the settee or somewhere, it doesn't
matter if it gets bashed about or scratched. It's
light enough to wander into the toilet or down the
garden with. If someone gave me a gold-plated guitar
with platinum strings I'd be too intimidated to play
it, but this is so cheap and crap I'm really
comfortable with it."
- Andy Partridge, 1999
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"I’ll start off with
a chord change from one artist and glue it to a
couple of chords from another. I’ll begin by
playing something from West Side Story, and
before I know it, I’ll be playing my own tune."
- Colin Moulding, 1999
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"It was all written in
what was the worst and then the best of times for me.
Bit of a roller coaster emotionally: divorce, illness,
can't work with record company, legal battles, little
bit too much booze on the quiet, possibly... Then, [sings]
"falling in love again," and all the time
writing songs and going completely nutty because I'm
thinking, "Oh, my God, is anyone going to hear
these tunes?"
- Andy Partridge, 2000
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