Lindsey Buckingham Quotes
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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.
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'Tusk' was clearly a line in the sand that I drew.
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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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There have been several occasions during the course of Fleetwood Mac over the years where we've had to undermine whatever the business axioms might be to sort of keep aspiring as an artist in the long term, and the 'Tusk' album was one of those times.
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I feel like fifteen years with Fleetwood Mac was like working on my thesis, doing research for some kind of paper.
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If things are crazy in the studio, usually the road is times 10.
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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.
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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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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.
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We really were poised to make 'Rumours 2,' and that could've been the beginning of kind of painting yourself into a corner in terms of living up to the labels that were being placed on you as a band.
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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.
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The only way I've been able to keep my sanity is to pull back when I feel like it's time to pull back.
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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 didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales.
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I was playing a Fender Telecaster when I first joined.
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Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera.
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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.
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I'm very fortunate.
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My personal life is fairly barren.
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Studio D has a lot of symbolism for me.
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I seldom look back.
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You come off the kind of commercial success that 'Rumours' had, and you see that there are limitations to that as well as freedoms.
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Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity.
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I put out an album once every four or five years and it's kind of like starting over every time.