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" 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

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" The most disappointing thing to me after 'Tusk' was the politics in the band. They said, 'We're not going to do that again.' I felt dead in the water from that. On 'Mirage,' I was treading water, saying, 'Okay, whatever,' and taking a passive role. "

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" 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.' "

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My personal life is fairly barren. "

" 'Big Love' was originally an ensemble song, but it's done now as a single guitar piece. "

" I couldn't put any kind of label on my production aesthetic. "

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

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

" You just get out there and be what you want to be. That's part of evolving and part of staying true to yourself - part of remaining alive in a real authentic, long-term sense creatively: not listening to what other people tell you to be. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I seldom look back. "

" 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. "

" I don't know what 'genius' even means. It's just a matter of keeping your eye on the ball. "

" 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. "