Quotes from Christine McVie

Some of the best songs I've written, I've written in 10 minutes.

I still like to play the blues more than anything else.

I did make a solo album in my house when I was there. And because I was just afraid of flying, I wouldn't promote it, and I wouldn't tour. Actually, it wasn't a very good album anyway - it got buried underneath the pits of Hell, I suppose.

There's a whole bunch of unfinished stuff. Then I've got books of lyrics. I find it frustrating to finish a song and not be able to record it... so I don't write a million songs.

'Hold Me' was a nightmare! It was the middle of the desert in Palm Springs, in the height of summer. I don't know what possessed us to do that. But we sometimes do crazy things.

I don't have the ability to be a diva. I can't flaunt. I don't have that kind of stage presence. I think of myself as just a band member.

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

Eventually, I had to figure out what the hell I was going to do with my life. I needed to find my way back to Fleetwood Mac.

My writing ability all stems from the blues.

I was by no means a nun.

We all enjoyed the success of Rumours obviously.

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.

I write about unrequited love in a very optimistic way.

For Stevie, the words are of prime importance; the song moves around the words, rather than the words moving around the song.

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

I dearly remember the old days... Fleetwood Mac had this one-of-a-kind charm. They were gregarious, charming and cheeky onstage. Very cheeky. They'd have a good time.

I try to say I love you in a million different ways. That's what I aspire to do. That's what I do best.

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

Don't stop thinking about tomorrow,Don't stop, it'll soon be here.It'll be better than before,Yesterday's gone, yesterday's gone.

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.

You can only mend the vase so many times before you have to chuck it away.

I'm rather old-fashioned about this video business. It's all relatively new. We really don't do videos, Fleetwood Mac. We've only done two.

I enjoy my money, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'd certainly rather be rich than poor.

I wanted to restore an ancient house in Kent, and that's what I did. It was a heap - this Tudor building with the beams painted lime green, so hideous. And I had this idea that I'd love the small village life, with the Range Rover and the dogs and baking cookies for the Y.W.C.A. But then it got so boring.