American - Musician | October 3, 1949 -
The thought of being on my own really terrified me. But then I realized being alone is really a cleansing thing.
Lindsey Buckingham
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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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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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A house full of new furniture doesn't mean a whole lot.
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One thing I admire about the Eagles is they always seem to know what they want. They always seem to know why they want it. They always seem to want it at the same time.
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I just find things that work and embellish them.
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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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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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The 12 years I was in Fleetwood Mac before were not particularly happy years. I was not in a very good place, psychologically, when I left. I didn't have a lot of confidence in what I was doing.
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When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making.
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You just get out there and be what you want to be. That's part of evolving and part of staying true to yourself - part of remaining alive in a real authentic, long-term sense creatively: not listening to what other people tell you to be.
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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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