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" That's one strength that Stevie has. She's really not a strong instrumentalist in any way. Her instrument is her voice and her words. And it keeps her focused on the very center of that. "

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" 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

Enough

Meet

Late

" Most people don't know who the hell I am. But that's not really important. "

" 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. "

" When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Lindsey Buckingham

Said

Politics

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

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

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

Lindsey Buckingham

I Think

Lost

" There is nothing like this extended family that is Fleetwood Mac. And I think you have to say, for all the perceived and real dysfunction that there has been, underneath that, there is and always has been a great deal of love. And that keeps pulling us back together. "

" 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. "

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

" My personal life is fairly barren. "

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

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

Lindsey Buckingham

Yourself

Trap

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

" Creating a set list is like making a running order for an album. Certain things get pitted against one another that make more sense. One song sets another one off, or it might diminish it. You're just constantly looking for the next thing that's gonna make sense in a particular place. "

" When you make music, and even if it's commercially successful, it doesn't mean that it's going to hold up. It takes time to sort of take stock of what you've done and whether it's got legs and whether it's going to really have a place. "

" One of the things about Fleetwood Mac is, when we're not together, we don't talk a lot or keep in touch. We keep a healthy distance. "

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

" 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. "

" I seldom look back. "

" One of the things about Fleetwood Mac, you gotta say, is that it's not very often that you get everyone to want the same thing at the same time. "

" 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. "

" I'm not really concerned with the outer success. "

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

" 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.' "

Lindsey Buckingham

Always

Kind

" 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. "

" The want to return to the fold doesn't mean you can repeat history. "