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" There have been times when I've feared for my own well-being in the great scheme of things because, historically, the track record has not been kind to the guitar players in this band. "

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" I don't read music. I've never had a lesson. I don't know anything about music other than what my inner knowledge is. "

Lindsey Buckingham

Know

Never

Music

" When I was a kid, and Elvis Presley broke through to a middle class, white audience, it was a sociological phenomenon that lasted through the Beatles and even a bit through Fleetwood Mac. "

" 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

" But by taking the time away, getting myself off the treadmill, and just slowing down and learning, I felt I had so much more to give back. And maybe that was something that needed to happen for all of us. "

" 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. "

" It hasn't always been easy, but you get to a point where you're not doing the solo stuff with any kind of expectation in terms of commercial or a business outcome, you're doing it because you believe in this. "

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

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

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

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

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

Lindsey Buckingham

Able

Admire

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I love to be in the studio. That's what I like to do best. "

Lindsey Buckingham

Best

I Love

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You could say that Fleetwood Mac is a bit of a dysfunctional family, but we are a family. "

" Another thing that was unique about working on this stuff was that I was engineering it. I used many of the things I had learned while I was away from the band. It sort of vindicated my decision to leave in '87. "

" 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. "

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

" My personal life is fairly barren. "

" Defining something being a Fleetwood Mac song is calling it a Fleetwood Mac song, you know? Nothing becomes Fleetwood Mac until that's what you call it. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "