A biography for Lindsey Buckinghamhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“The thought of being on my own really terrified me. But then I realized being alone is really a cleansing thing.”
“That's basically what's going on now: Everything is propaganda.”
“You could almost say I'm someone who doesn't practice age.”
“I just find things that work and embellish them.”
“You could say that Fleetwood Mac is a bit of a dysfunctional family, but we are a family.”
“One of the things about Fleetwood Mac is, when we're not together, we don't talk a lot or keep in touch. We keep a healthy distance.”
“I love to be in the studio. That's what I like to do best.”
“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.”
“Another thing that was unique about working on this stuff was that I was engineering it. I used many of the things I had learned while I was away from the band. It sort of vindicated my decision to leave in '87.”
“Defining something being a Fleetwood Mac song is calling it a Fleetwood Mac song, you know? Nothing becomes Fleetwood Mac until that's what you call it.”
“Arcade Fire seems to be doing very well; certainly, Phoenix is doing very well.”
“You come off the kind of commercial success that 'Rumours' had, and you see that there are limitations to that as well as freedoms.”
“Sometimes you can do the work in the moment, and you don't know whether it's going to really have meaning once time has elapsed.”
“Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity.”
“When you make music, and even if it's commercially successful, it doesn't mean that it's going to hold up. It takes time to sort of take stock of what you've done and whether it's got legs and whether it's going to really have a place.”
“If you are gonna participate in a band, you've got to be a band member in good standing, and you've got to think about the needs of the whole.”
“There have been times when I've feared for my own well-being in the great scheme of things because, historically, the track record has not been kind to the guitar players in this band.”
“You know, I was never totally thrilled with being a Fleetwood Mac member, but surprisingly, I was having such a good time reuniting with John, Mick, and Stevie.”
“I guess you can look at Fleetwood Mac as the 'Pirates Of The Caribbean' movies and my solo career as indie films.”