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

Lindsey Buckingham

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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. "

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

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" As autobiographical as say the stuff on 'Rumours' was, I don't think we thought of it as such when we were writing it. "

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" 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. "

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

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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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" 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. "

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" I'm very fortunate. "

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

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" I have an amazing wife and three beautiful children, and that certainly makes you less obsessive about your art as a musician - which I've always felt was more like painting than anything. "

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" 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. "

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" If things are crazy in the studio, usually the road is times 10. "

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" You could almost say I'm someone who doesn't practice age. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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" You know, I was never totally thrilled with being a Fleetwood Mac member, but surprisingly, I was having such a good time reuniting with John, Mick, and Stevie. "

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" There were a number of false starts where I was trying to make solo albums. They would get constantly folded into group efforts. In retrospect, I can say fair enough, that you call yourself a band member, and you've got to step up to the plate when the need arises. "

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

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

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

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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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" Even though I had pushed through the Tango album, it was just not a very good environment to be in on a daily basis. In many ways, this is the best time of my life. "

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

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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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" 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. "

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" All of my style came from listening to records. "

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