Christine McVie

“I wanted to restore an ancient house in Kent, and that's what I did. It was a heap - this Tudor building with the beams painted lime green, so hideous. And I had this idea that I'd love the small village life, with the Range Rover and the dogs and baking cookies for the Y.W.C.A. But then it got so boring.”

“I actually enjoyed making 'Tango In The Night.'”

“I didn't open a restaurant, but I did go to a few cooking schools. It was too much like hard work!”

“I do like my wine.”

“I wouldn't think a blues album would be that commercially successful, but I don't really care. I'd do it for the love of blues, not for the money. I've got plenty of money.”

“I'm rather old-fashioned about this video business. It's all relatively new. We really don't do videos, Fleetwood Mac. We've only done two.”

“I don't think talent or the gift ever goes away.”

“I like being with the band, the whole idea of playing music with them.”

“I try to say I love you in a million different ways. That's what I aspire to do. That's what I do best.”

“When you're in the same band as somebody, you're seeing them almost more than 24 hours a day. You start to see an awful lot of the bad side 'cause touring is no easy thing.”

“I dearly remember the old days... Fleetwood Mac had this one-of-a-kind charm. They were gregarious, charming and cheeky onstage. Very cheeky. They'd have a good time.”

“My ears are really good. I'm a good listener.”

“If you can't plagiarise yourself, who can you plagiarise?”

“The 2018 tour is supposed to be a farewell tour. But you take farewell tours one at a time.”

“I couldn't go anywhere unless there was a security guard with me. That spoiled my life. It was like being in captivity. Those days are gone, and I don't ever want to see that happen to me again. Now I can wander around the streets of Los Angeles on my own. I like it that way.”

“I did make a solo album in my house when I was there. And because I was just afraid of flying, I wouldn't promote it, and I wouldn't tour. Actually, it wasn't a very good album anyway - it got buried underneath the pits of Hell, I suppose.”

“There's a whole bunch of unfinished stuff. Then I've got books of lyrics. I find it frustrating to finish a song and not be able to record it... so I don't write a million songs.”

“The old Fleetwood Mac was much better; they did some beautiful and, to my mind, very authentic blues. Chicken Shack did pretty well in Europe, but after I left, it was over.”

“I bought a house in England in 1990, shortly after my father died, hoping to come home to England and spend time with my family.”

“I don't know what it is really... I think I'm just good with hooks.”