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" What happens with artists, or people who start off doing things for the right reasons, is that you slowly start to paint yourself into a corner by doing what people outside of the creative world are asking you to do, and I think that's antithetical to being an artist. "

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" That's one of the real downfalls of celebrity. You're something that's about you at some point, and that gets latched onto and pumped into the machinery. Then you start having a million other people telling you who you are, and what you should be doing and why, and it's easy to lose your way. "

Lindsey Buckingham

People

Start

Doing

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

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

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

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

" I don't really think of myself so much as a writer as a stylist, someone who came into writing from the back door and has found it through a certain very specific and personal means. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When people just decide they're going to reconvene, there's no guarantee that they're going to have any of that chemistry. Sometimes people try to do that, and it's a struggle to try to recreate what once was. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Fleetwood Mac was one big lesson in adaptation for me. There were five very different personalities, and I suppose that made it great for a while. "

" If you go back to 'Louie Louie,' there's the whole element there, where you need to be able to appreciate what 'dumb' is in its profoundness. "

" If everybody wanted to follow the left side of the pallet like I had on 'Tusk,' there would have been no need for me to do solo work. "

Lindsey Buckingham

Need

" 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. "

" 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

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

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

" When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done. "

Lindsey Buckingham

Work

Band

" When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making. "

Lindsey Buckingham

Process

Work

" 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. "

Lindsey Buckingham

Weird

Work

" 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. "

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

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