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" There is a lot of pressure to top yourself... to come up with a 'Rumours II,' and that seemed like a trap. "

Lindsey Buckingham

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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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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" 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. "

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" Warner Bros. never really got behind the solo work. They always kind of drew a blank. I think they always were thinking, 'Well, this is nice, but let's get back to what's really important.' "

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

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" If you want to be an artist in the long run, it isn't necessarily a good axiom to repeat formulas over and over until they're used up. "

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" Arcade Fire seems to be doing very well; certainly, Phoenix is doing very well. "

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

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" I think when you work alone - the way I do it, anyway - you could sort of liken it to painting, where there's sort of a one-on-one with the canvas. "

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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

Lindsey Buckingham

" I can't judge myself by 'God Only Knows.' No one writes songs as good as that. "

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

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" 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. "

Lindsey Buckingham

Working Together

" Back in 1985, I was working on my third solo album when the band came to me and asked me to produce the next Fleetwood Mac project. At that point, I put aside my solo work - which was half finished - and committed myself for the next seventeen months to producing 'Tango in the Night.' "

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" My center is not really my singing so much as my guitar playing. "

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" I'm very fortunate. "

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" There's a certain kind of idealism attached to 'Tusk' as a subtext to the music, and I think people now can respond not only to how colorful and experimental it is, but also why it was made. "

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" I always made the joke that I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when Warner Brothers first put 'Tusk' on and listened to it in their boardroom as a follow-up to 'Rumours.' "

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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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" When I was in a band after high school and in college, I didn't even play the guitar. I played the bass because I couldn't play lead, and I didn't have the gear. "

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

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

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