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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. "

Lindsey Buckingham

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Lindsey Buckingham

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Fortunate

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" My personal life is fairly barren. "

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

" Back in 1985, I was working on my third solo album when the band came to me and asked me to produce the next Fleetwood Mac project. At that point, I put aside my solo work - which was half finished - and committed myself for the next seventeen months to producing 'Tango in the Night.' "

Lindsey Buckingham

Band

Myself

" The 12 years I was in Fleetwood Mac before were not particularly happy years. I was not in a very good place, psychologically, when I left. I didn't have a lot of confidence in what I was doing. "

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

" Sometimes you can do the work in the moment, and you don't know whether it's going to really have meaning once time has elapsed. "

" 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. "

" My center is not really my singing so much as my guitar playing. "

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

Lindsey Buckingham

I Think

Lost

" Studio D has a lot of symbolism for me. "

" 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. "

" There have been several occasions during the course of Fleetwood Mac over the years where we've had to undermine whatever the business axioms might be to sort of keep aspiring as an artist in the long term, and the 'Tusk' album was one of those times. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There's a certain kind of idealism attached to 'Tusk' as a subtext to the music, and I think people now can respond not only to how colorful and experimental it is, but also why it was made. "

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

" I actually like Taylor Swift. I admire what she's been able to do on some levels. "

Lindsey Buckingham

Able

Admire

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

" 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. "

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

Lindsey Buckingham

Process

Work

" 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. "

" The only way I've been able to keep my sanity is to pull back when I feel like it's time to pull back. "

" 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

Writing

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

" You can look at 'Rumours' and say, 'Well, the album is bright, and it's clean, and it's sunny.' But everything underneath is so dark and murky. What was going on between us created a resonance that goes beyond the music itself. "