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" I just find things that work and embellish them. "

Lindsey Buckingham

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" I don't practice per se. I learned to play on my own, taught myself how to play. I've never really had a lesson, and I don't read music. So all the stuff that I do doesn't come from the normal set of disciplines that they teach you where you sit down and run through scales for a particular number of minutes a day. "

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. "

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" I remember being a kid - if a new member joined a group, I just didn't like that at all. "

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

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" 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. "

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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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" Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" 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. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" I guess you can look at Fleetwood Mac as the 'Pirates Of The Caribbean' movies and my solo career as indie films. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" I left Fleetwood Mac to make myself happy, and fortunately, it worked. "

Lindsey Buckingham

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

Lindsey Buckingham

" If you go back to 'Louie Louie,' there's the whole element there, where you need to be able to appreciate what 'dumb' is in its profoundness. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" I don't read music. I've never had a lesson. I don't know anything about music other than what my inner knowledge is. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" 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. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" I had to seal off my feelings about Stevie while seeing her every day and having to help her, too. But you get on with it. What was happening to the band was much bigger than any of that. "

Lindsey Buckingham

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

Lindsey Buckingham

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

Lindsey Buckingham

" I was lucky enough to meet someone when I was about 46 and had my first child when I was 48, so I got started late, but I also got all that other stuff out of the way and was at a point where I could be a consistent presence at home. "

Lindsey Buckingham

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

Lindsey Buckingham

" I do think my lyrics have gotten... not necessarily more poetic, but more open to interpretation; they're less literal. "

Lindsey Buckingham

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

Lindsey Buckingham

" Sometimes I wish we were the Eagles. That's one thing they've always been able to do is want the same thing for the same reasons. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" Lyrically, you know, most of the things on 'Rumours' were very autobiographical and very much conversations the three writers were having with other members of the band. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" I put out an album once every four or five years and it's kind of like starting over every time. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" 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

" You could almost say I'm someone who doesn't practice age. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" I was playing a Fender Telecaster when I first joined. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" I'm not that knowledgeable with the guitar - I just find ways that are pretty creative, but it's all within the framework and the limitations of what I can do. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" 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

" When I was in a band after high school and in college, I didn't even play the guitar. I played the bass because I couldn't play lead, and I didn't have the gear. "

Lindsey Buckingham