Quotes from Lindsey Buckingham

A house full of new furniture doesn't mean a whole lot.

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 also married for the first time, and I have two kids. So there's some kind of good karma right now.

The first couple shows I did by myself, I was looking around wondering where the rest of my band was.

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.

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.

This time, there were no drugs involved. The hours were completely normal daytime hours. I think we were able to appreciate the interplay, where before we had taken it for granted.

All of my style came from listening to records.

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.

I feel like fifteen years with Fleetwood Mac was like working on my thesis, doing research for some kind of paper.

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.

It's always been based around the song, and guitar-playing in the service of the song... The sensibility is about songs. I like to think of it as kind of 'refined primitive.'

When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done.

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.

The want to return to the fold doesn't mean you can repeat history.

I can't judge myself by 'God Only Knows.' No one writes songs as good as that.

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.

It's really touching that we can come back after so long and care about making an album that says as much as this one does. And after all this time, we really do care about each other.

I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instincts more.

I've been playing since I was about 7. I never really used a pick very much. I mean, once in a while, if you're in a festive mood, you might draw a little blood, but nothing significant... But my hands aren't abused, really.

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.

Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity.

I was playing a Fender Telecaster when I first joined.