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" Arcade Fire seems to be doing very well; certainly, Phoenix is doing very well. "

Lindsey Buckingham

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" Defining something being a Fleetwood Mac song is calling it a Fleetwood Mac song, you know? Nothing becomes Fleetwood Mac until that's what you call it. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" If you are gonna participate in a band, you've got to be a band member in good standing, and you've got to think about the needs of the whole. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" You come off the kind of commercial success that 'Rumours' had, and you see that there are limitations to that as well as freedoms. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" When you work with a band, obviously you've got to present them with something they can get a hold of, so it has to be a little more fleshed out as a song. And then where it goes is more collaborative, obviously; it's more political possibly, certainly more a conscious process than a subconscious process, which the painting can be. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" Fleetwood Mac was one big lesson in adaptation for me. There were five very different personalities, and I suppose that made it great for a while. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" Sometimes you can do the work in the moment, and you don't know whether it's going to really have meaning once time has elapsed. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" Those 12 years, they were ambiguous at best. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" My personal life is fairly barren. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" That's one strength that Stevie has. She's really not a strong instrumentalist in any way. Her instrument is her voice and her words. And it keeps her focused on the very center of that. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" The first couple shows I did by myself, I was looking around wondering where the rest of my band was. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" A house full of new furniture doesn't mean a whole lot. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" Even though I had pushed through the Tango album, it was just not a very good environment to be in on a daily basis. In many ways, this is the best time of my life. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" We really were poised to make 'Rumours 2,' and that could've been the beginning of kind of painting yourself into a corner in terms of living up to the labels that were being placed on you as a band. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" But by taking the time away, getting myself off the treadmill, and just slowing down and learning, I felt I had so much more to give back. And maybe that was something that needed to happen for all of us. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" My center is not really my singing so much as my guitar playing. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" If things are crazy in the studio, usually the road is times 10. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" Years on, Christine and John still have a deep love for each other, as do Stevie and I - we've been working together since I was 17. "

Lindsey Buckingham

Working Together

" There is a lot of pressure to top yourself... to come up with a 'Rumours II,' and that seemed like a trap. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" There were a number of false starts where I was trying to make solo albums. They would get constantly folded into group efforts. In retrospect, I can say fair enough, that you call yourself a band member, and you've got to step up to the plate when the need arises. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instincts more. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" I honestly think part of the appeal of 'Rumours' was that it was sort of heroic. We managed to push through in the face of so much personal adversity. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" Certainly, whatever I learn while I'm out solo, I bring back to Fleetwood Mac. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" You could say that Fleetwood Mac is a bit of a dysfunctional family, but we are a family. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" For me, none of the albums after 'Tusk' quite had it. I think we lost something after that. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" I didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" I think when you work alone - the way I do it, anyway - you could sort of liken it to painting, where there's sort of a one-on-one with the canvas. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" I'm not ashamed of my personal life. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" When you make music, and even if it's commercially successful, it doesn't mean that it's going to hold up. It takes time to sort of take stock of what you've done and whether it's got legs and whether it's going to really have a place. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" I don't really think of myself so much as a writer as a stylist, someone who came into writing from the back door and has found it through a certain very specific and personal means. "

Lindsey Buckingham