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" 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

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" I love to be in the studio. That's what I like to do best. "

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" 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. "

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

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" I'm in the position where I don't have to make commercial music to feed myself, so I have the luxury of being more experimental, if that's what I choose to do. I guess I've earned the right by being in the business for a while and paying the dues and taking the lumps. "

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

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" You're not going to reinvent the wheel every time you go out, because that would disappoint the audience. "

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" As I've grown as an artist, I've gotten more and more in touch with my center, and that center is voice and guitar. "

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" When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making. "

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" If you want to be an artist in the long run, it isn't necessarily a good axiom to repeat formulas over and over until they're used up. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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.' "

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" There is nothing like this extended family that is Fleetwood Mac. And I think you have to say, for all the perceived and real dysfunction that there has been, underneath that, there is and always has been a great deal of love. And that keeps pulling us back together. "

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" There have been times when I've feared for my own well-being in the great scheme of things because, historically, the track record has not been kind to the guitar players in this band. "

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" 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. "

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" If you look at the whole time I was in the band, I only did, like, three solo albums - two, really. 'Out Of The Cradle,' I had already left because we'd done 'Tango In The Night,' and it was sort of the logical extension of crazy in terms of everyone getting ready to hit the wall with their habits. "

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" I feel like fifteen years with Fleetwood Mac was like working on my thesis, doing research for some kind of paper. "

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" My foundation is acoustic guitar, and it is finger-picking and all of that and sort of an orchestral style of playing. Lead guitar came later, more out of the necessity to do so because of expectations in a particular situation. "

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" If everybody wanted to follow the left side of the pallet like I had on 'Tusk,' there would have been no need for me to do solo work. "

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

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" You get to be a certain age - I am 58 - and it becomes tricky not to become a caricature of yourself. "

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