Christine McVie

“I'm quite a domestic person by nature, and the nomad thing had got a bit stale on me, really.”

“Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing.”

“Stevie Winwood played like I'd never heard anybody play before. It just gave me goose bumps.”

“I tend to like the traditional sound: three-part harmonies, guitar, and piano. I mean, a well-played guitar is a joy forever... or something.”

“My contribution is the romance and the warmth. The love songs.”

“I'm pretty low-key. I travel fairly light, especially on the tour.”

“I left the band because I developed a terrible fear of flying.”

“Fleetwood Mac always take a long time to make a record - you know what.”

“If the right guy pops the question, I'll say yes.”

“I tend to go for these half-little-boy characters.”

“With Fleetwood Mac, it's an amazing chemistry that we have on stage.”

“I wanted to have a home where I could go home and unlock my door and go in and be settled. I was tired of being a gypsy.”

“Everything is for the good in the end.”

“I suffered from some delusion that I wanted to be an English country girl, a Sloane Ranger donning the old Hunter boots and Barbour jacket to slosh around in mud with the Range Rover.”

“I find it hard to get excited by just a sound. I have to have a song there, then I'll find what used I can make of that sound within the song.”

“There were a lot of bad feelings when Lindsey first left the band. But there's been a lot of healing going on, growing up, maturing. The bond is a great deal stronger than what we first thought.”

“We all enjoyed the success of Rumours obviously.”

“I'm looking more like my dogs every day - it must be the shaggy fringe and the ears.”

“'Mirage' was an attempt to get back into the flow that 'Rumours' had. But we missed a vital ingredient. That was the passion.”

“My songwriting, when I'm writing, is nothing like it is in its finished form - but you have to start somewhere.”