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" I was always interested in listening to music - and, of course, when my older brother brought home 'Heartbreak Hotel,' that was it. "

Lindsey Buckingham

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" 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

" 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. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" That really was a lot of the appeal of 'Rumours.' The music was wonderful, but the music was also authentic because it was two couples breaking up and writing dialogue to each other. It was also appealing because we were rising to the occasion to follow our destiny. "

Lindsey Buckingham

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

Lindsey Buckingham

" The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing. "

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

" Some days I would be there at ten in the morning and wouldn't leave till ten at night, and the others would waltz in for a couple of hours and then leave, because I was doing that painting thing. And they were happy to see that being done. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" I liked 'Rumours,' but to me, there was some point where the focus became the sales, not the music. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" 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

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

Lindsey Buckingham

" You work in a band, and it tends to be more like moviemaking, I think. It tends to be more of a conscious, verbalized and, to some degree, political process. "

Lindsey Buckingham

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

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

" 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

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

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

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

Lindsey Buckingham

" 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

" It's really touching that we can come back after so long and care about making an album that says as much as this one does. And after all this time, we really do care about each other. "

Lindsey Buckingham

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

Lindsey Buckingham

" I seldom look back. "

Lindsey Buckingham

" I'm trying to break down preconceptions about what pop music is. "

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

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

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

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" We're not one of those bands that throws the names of all their songs in a hat and pulls them out right before they go on stage. "

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

" That's one of the real downfalls of celebrity. You're something that's about you at some point, and that gets latched onto and pumped into the machinery. Then you start having a million other people telling you who you are, and what you should be doing and why, and it's easy to lose your way. "

Lindsey Buckingham