A biography for Lindsey Buckinghamhasn’t been written yet.
“Studio D has a lot of symbolism for me.”
“I didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales.”
“Most people don't know who the hell I am. But that's not really important.”
“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.”
“When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process.”
“I'm trying to break down preconceptions about what pop music is.”
“I actually like Taylor Swift. I admire what she's been able to do on some levels.”
“The first couple shows I did by myself, I was looking around wondering where the rest of my band was.”
“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.”
“I'm in the position where I don't have to make commercial music to feed myself, so I have the luxury of being more experimental, if that's what I choose to do. I guess I've earned the right by being in the business for a while and paying the dues and taking the lumps.”
“I liked 'Rumours,' but to me, there was some point where the focus became the sales, not the music.”
“You work in a band, and it tends to be more like moviemaking, I think. It tends to be more of a conscious, verbalized and, to some degree, political process.”
“I don't read music. I've never had a lesson. I don't know anything about music other than what my inner knowledge is.”
“A lot of people who have gone to music school have gotten their individuality stomped out of them. It becomes harder to find those instincts.”
“My personal life is fairly barren.”
“I put out an album once every four or five years and it's kind of like starting over every time.”
“When I work alone, and I'm in my studio, and I'm playing a lot of the stuff myself, I think the style of it becomes something a little different.”
“I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instincts more.”
“There is a real joy to be able to get up and react to each other and appreciate the whole being greater than the sum of the parts, just the chemistry of the group.”
“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.”