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.
Lindsey Buckingham

All of my style came from listening to records.
Lindsey Buckingham

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.
Lindsey Buckingham

But by taking the time away, getting myself off the treadmill, and just slowing down and learning, I felt I had so much more to give back. And maybe that was something that needed to happen for all of us.
Lindsey Buckingham

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

Even though I had pushed through the Tango album, it was just not a very good environment to be in on a daily basis. In many ways, this is the best time of my life.
Lindsey Buckingham

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

I didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales.
Lindsey Buckingham

I had to seal off my feelings about Stevie while seeing her every day and having to help her, too. But you get on with it. What was happening to the band was much bigger than any of that.
Lindsey Buckingham

I just find things that work and embellish them.
Lindsey Buckingham


I was playing a Fender Telecaster when I first joined.
Lindsey Buckingham

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

Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera.
Lindsey Buckingham

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.
Lindsey Buckingham

Some days I would be there at ten in the morning and wouldn't leave till ten at night, and the others would waltz in for a couple of hours and then leave, because I was doing that painting thing. And they were happy to see that being done.
Lindsey Buckingham

That's basically what's going on now: Everything is propaganda.
Lindsey Buckingham

That's one strength that Stevie has. She's really not a strong instrumentalist in any way. Her instrument is her voice and her words. And it keeps her focused on the very center of that.
Lindsey Buckingham

That's the only way to do it. Just like an actor. You can get a great performance if you do a bunch of takes and edit it. You find the moments and string them together.
Lindsey Buckingham

The 12 years I was in Fleetwood Mac before were not particularly happy years. I was not in a very good place, psychologically, when I left. I didn't have a lot of confidence in what I was doing.
Lindsey Buckingham

The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing.
Lindsey Buckingham