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I seldom look back.
My personal life is fairly barren.
I'm not ashamed of my personal life.
Studio D has a lot of symbolism for me.
Those 12 years, they were ambiguous at best.
All of my style came from listening to records.
I'm not really concerned with the outer success.
I just find things that work and embellish them.
'Tusk' was clearly a line in the sand that I drew.
I didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales.
I was playing a Fender Telecaster when I first joined.
If you're any good at all, you know you can be better.
I lost my power in the world because I did not use it.
A house full of new furniture doesn't mean a whole lot.
I couldn't put any kind of label on my production aesthetic.
That's basically what's going on now: Everything is propaganda.
My center is not really my singing so much as my guitar playing.
I'm trying to break down preconceptions about what pop music is.
I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instincts more.
Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity.
The want to return to the fold doesn't mean you can repeat history.
I left Fleetwood Mac to make myself happy, and fortunately, it worked.
Certainly, whatever I learn while I'm out solo, I bring back to Fleetwood Mac.
Arcade Fire seems to be doing very well; certainly, Phoenix is doing very well.
I actually like Taylor Swift. I admire what she's been able to do on some levels.
'Big Love' was originally an ensemble song, but it's done now as a single guitar piece.
'Tango' was a good experience, looking back on it, and it seems to hold up pretty well.
I remember being a kid - if a new member joined a group, I just didn't like that at all.
You could say that Fleetwood Mac is a bit of a dysfunctional family, but we are a family.
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, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making.
I liked 'Rumours,' but to me, there was some point where the focus became the sales, not the music.
The first couple shows I did by myself, I was looking around wondering where the rest of my band was.
You get to be a certain age - I am 58 - and it becomes tricky not to become a caricature of yourself.
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.
I'm also married for the first time, and I have two kids. So there's some kind of good karma right now.
You're not going to reinvent the wheel every time you go out, because that would disappoint the audience.
There is a lot of pressure to top yourself... to come up with a 'Rumours II,' and that seemed like a trap.
The thought of being on my own really terrified me. But then I realized being alone is really a cleansing thing.
I guess you can look at Fleetwood Mac as the 'Pirates Of The Caribbean' movies and my solo career as indie films.
I feel like fifteen years with Fleetwood Mac was like working on my thesis, doing research for some kind of paper.
As I've grown as an artist, I've gotten more and more in touch with my center, and that center is voice and guitar.
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.
As autobiographical as say the stuff on 'Rumours' was, I don't think we thought of it as such when we were writing it.
I do think my lyrics have gotten... not necessarily more poetic, but more open to interpretation; they're less literal.
Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera.
We're not one of those bands that throws the names of all their songs in a hat and pulls them out right before they go on stage.
Sometimes I wish we were the Eagles. That's one thing they've always been able to do is want the same thing for the same reasons.
You come off the kind of commercial success that 'Rumours' had, and you see that there are limitations to that as well as freedoms.
I was always interested in listening to music - and, of course, when my older brother brought home 'Heartbreak Hotel,' that was it.