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" The rest of the band had a cynical view towards the way 'Tusk' was made and the reasons why I thought it was important to move into new territory. It wasn't just negativity. There was open hostility. Then I got a certain amount of flak because it didn't sell as many as 'Rumours.' "

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" When I work alone, and I'm in my studio, and I'm playing a lot of the stuff myself, I think the style of it becomes something a little different. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I put out an album once every four or five years and it's kind of like starting over every time. "

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

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

" As I've grown as an artist, I've gotten more and more in touch with my center, and that center is voice and guitar. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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