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Years on, Christine and John still have a deep love for each other, as do Stevie and I - we've been working together since I was 17.
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.
One thing I've often thought is that I never want to tell anybody else what to do. It's hard enough to figure out what I want to do.
I don't know what goes on in the crowd. I've had them show up and throw beer cans at me. I caused riots in most of the major cities.
I listen to a lot of Pink Floyd, the Doors, Elton John, Sabbath, Metallica, GN'R, Megadeth - just classic rock, classic metal stuff.
If you want break it down, rock and roll is about saying what you can't say in normal life to girls, so you have to say it in songs.
No matter what, I think people are trying to better themselves, or to better their situation, or to find something new and exciting.
We try to make the sound hold as much relevance as it does on the record you know, we don't try and interpret it in a different way.
Well, being a Canadian, I love SCTV, and I think it's the basis for all good North American comedy, so I compare everything to that.
Pop music is music that's made more accessible to people. And there's a certain lifestyle and everything that goes with it normally.
I think I bought into that whole rock n' roll lifestyle, and all that does in the end is kill ya. So I don't recommend it to anyone.
I usually like to make really dramatic songs that are dynamic from part to part - a lot of jumping from really quiet to really loud.
No, his mind is not for rent To any God or government Always hopeful yet discontent He knows changes aren't permanent But change is.
I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.
I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.
You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As you slowly died of boredom.
And she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me
When I perform onstage, I'm actually kind of nearsighted, so I don't have any real, true understanding of what the audience is like.
If you're getting different prescriptions from different doctors, there has to be some sort of check and balance in there somewhere.
I got the chess bug when I was finishing high school, we were doing chess tournaments at my house. I never got to a very high level.
I'm still looking to write a great song.... You always are. You know, you never think, 'Well, that's enough ... that's good enough.'
I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn't a hint of withdrawal, nothing.
A lot of girls walk this earth telling people they've slept with me. And a lot of them did. But I don't remember 95 percent of them.
I think we are incumbent, I am incumbent, the Who is incumbent, anybody that produces anything by me is incumbent by my Englishness.
I've had the honor of sitting in with the Allmans at their Beacon shows a couple of times, and it just doesn't get better than that.
I pile up the press clippings and send them off to my mother. She's got a scrapbook going back to when I was, like, eight years old.
When I play for the people, every time I play for my audience they are hypnotized, seen. These guys know the potential of the music.
Like last night I had a sequence with a gun and, to be honest, for me to be threatening with a gun and not be comical is quite hard.
I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
At this point in my life, I'm probably not gonna be able to stop writing because it's gonna help me be able to do what I need to do.
You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.
Many people, especially young people, have started listening to sitar since George Harrison, one of the Beatles, became my disciple.
I get some letters from girls that if their mothers knew what they were writing me in these letters, they'd get their butts whipped.
I hated it when people tried to force me out when I wasn't ready. It was very painful, and it actually pushed me away from doing so.
I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile.
I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so.
I kept a lid on my feelings at school but, when I was 18, dropped out of everything and couldn't even be bothered to get out of bed.
You have to be around people you trust; otherwise you can't do anything - you're afraid, you're paranoid, and you can't do any work.
I like classical music. I especially like the French composers: Ravel in particular. Debussy. That's so soothing in a nervous world.
Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.
I want a performance style that's more cerebral and emotional than physical. I want to be a creative artist, not a whirling dervish.
Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist.
More than 10 million Americans are living with cancer, and they demonstrate the ever-increasing possibility of living beyond cancer.
In terms of fitting in, you know, I don't have a lot of armor up. I'm a raw nerve and it's really uncomfortable for a lot of people.
I think it's important when you make a record that you know you're working with the people who are going to get the best out of you.
I'm merely teaching you to be someone of pride and to be a good leader and that's the message I want you to take away from my music.
A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one of them being shyness.
An opened mind will eventually lead to a more well rounded artist and this will thus heightenen his or her level of professionalism.
You can disseminate your art, and it's all such easy access now. The upside to it is that more people are creating than ever before.
For those who are familiar with my work, 'Soulfire' is a return to how most people identify me, which is that soul-meets-rock thing.