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" I'm also married for the first time, and I have two kids. So there's some kind of good karma right now. "

Lindsey Buckingham

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" 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. "

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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. "

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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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" Warner Bros. never really got behind the solo work. They always kind of drew a blank. I think they always were thinking, 'Well, this is nice, but let's get back to what's really important.' "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" It's always been based around the song, and guitar-playing in the service of the song... The sensibility is about songs. I like to think of it as kind of 'refined primitive.' "

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" 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. "

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

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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'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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" There is a real joy to be able to get up and react to each other and appreciate the whole being greater than the sum of the parts, just the chemistry of the group. "

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" When you become successful on the level that Fleetwood Mac did, it gives you financial freedom, which should allow you to follow your impulses. But oddly enough, they become much harder to follow. "

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" 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. "

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" After the success of 'Rumours,' we were in this zone with this certain scale of success. By that point, the success detaches from the music, and the success becomes about the success. The phenomenon becomes about the phenomenon. "

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" They tried to get me to use a pick when I first joined the band. They had certain things they thought were appropriate. I tried to adapt as much as I could. "

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" 'Tango' was a good experience, looking back on it, and it seems to hold up pretty well. "

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

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" 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. "

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" That's the only way to do it. Just like an actor. You can get a great performance if you do a bunch of takes and edit it. You find the moments and string them together. "

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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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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'm very fortunate. "

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