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" I actually like Taylor Swift. I admire what she's been able to do on some levels. "
Lindsey Buckingham
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" Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity. "
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Expectations
" 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
Political
Painting
Song
" 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. "
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Voice
Strength
Way
" A lot of people who have gone to music school have gotten their individuality stomped out of them. It becomes harder to find those instincts. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Find
School
People
" I do think my lyrics have gotten... not necessarily more poetic, but more open to interpretation; they're less literal. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Interpretation
Open
Think
" When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Work
Me
Band
" I put out an album once every four or five years and it's kind of like starting over every time. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Kind
Years
Time
" I was always interested in listening to music - and, of course, when my older brother brought home 'Heartbreak Hotel,' that was it. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Brother
Listening
Hotel
" All of my style came from listening to records. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Came
Listening
Records
" 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
You
Know
Fleetwood Mac
" If you talk about the 'Tango in the Night' album, the reason I didn't do that tour was because the album took about 10 months, and it was such an uncreative atmosphere. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Tour
Reason
Night
" A house full of new furniture doesn't mean a whole lot. "
Lindsey Buckingham
House
Whole
Furniture
" 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
You
Success
See
" You have to look at what 'Rumours' was, what drove the subject matter. You had two couples who were broken up or breaking up. And probably, you could say, success we had achieved was the catalyst for those breakups. "
Lindsey Buckingham
You
Success
Look
" We've always had the sensibility that you work on the set, and you structure it, much like a play, where once you've got the lines down and blocking right, you freeze it, and then you go out and do what you're doing night after night. You want to structure something that has form and that builds the right dynamic from start to finish. "
Lindsey Buckingham
You
Work
Start
" This time, there were no drugs involved. The hours were completely normal daytime hours. I think we were able to appreciate the interplay, where before we had taken it for granted. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Before
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Time
" 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
Good
Time
Best
" I was playing a Fender Telecaster when I first joined. "
Lindsey Buckingham
First
Fender
Playing
" You know, I was never totally thrilled with being a Fleetwood Mac member, but surprisingly, I was having such a good time reuniting with John, Mick, and Stevie. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Never
Good
Good Time
" When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Process
Life
Direction
" I've been playing since I was about 7. I never really used a pick very much. I mean, once in a while, if you're in a festive mood, you might draw a little blood, but nothing significant... But my hands aren't abused, really. "
Lindsey Buckingham
You
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Hands
" The first couple shows I did by myself, I was looking around wondering where the rest of my band was. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Did
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Myself
" 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
Painting
Beginning
Band
" I always made the joke that I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when Warner Brothers first put 'Tusk' on and listened to it in their boardroom as a follow-up to 'Rumours.' "
Lindsey Buckingham
First
Always
Joke
" 'Big Love' was originally an ensemble song, but it's done now as a single guitar piece. "
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Song
Guitar
Done
" I'm not ashamed of my personal life. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Personal Life
Personal
Ashamed
" What happens with artists, or people who start off doing things for the right reasons, is that you slowly start to paint yourself into a corner by doing what people outside of the creative world are asking you to do, and I think that's antithetical to being an artist. "
Lindsey Buckingham
People
Yourself
World
" After a couple of failed attempts, I came up with a weird tuning where I was dropping the G string down a step so that it became a seventh, and it got me to a place where I could play all these figures fairly easily. It was not an easy thing to work out. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Weird
Work
Me
" When I was a kid, and Elvis Presley broke through to a middle class, white audience, it was a sociological phenomenon that lasted through the Beatles and even a bit through Fleetwood Mac. "
Lindsey Buckingham
Audience
Kid
Class
" Those 12 years, they were ambiguous at best. "
Lindsey Buckingham
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