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.
— Christine McVie
You have to start laughing at yourself at some point.
I sang and played keyboard, so I was virtually a statue at the back of the stage. I'm not complaining about that; I enjoyed that role.
If you can't plagiarise yourself, who can you plagiarise?
I was in Tower Records in San Francisco a few weeks ago, buying some cassettes, and a couple of people recognized me and ran up with albums, and I just wanted to cover my face and have a seizure or something. I want people to just go away.
I wasn't raised with money, so I had to get used to having it. I think I've adjusted to it pretty well.
I wouldn't think a blues album would be that commercially successful, but I don't really care. I'd do it for the love of blues, not for the money. I've got plenty of money.
I'm looking more like my dogs every day - it must be the shaggy fringe and the ears.
Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing.
Some of the best songs I've written, I've written in 10 minutes.
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.
It's such a diva thing, but I need one room for my suitcases and one for me.
I'm quite a domestic person by nature, and the nomad thing had got a bit stale on me, really.
Schlepping around from city to city is nothing I want to do.
I have a lot to be grateful to L.A. for, but I overstayed my welcome by 28 years. I was only meant to be there for six months.
I do like my wine.
I haven't turned into some rich monster. I've kept my perspective. But I am a bit spoiled. It's hard not to be a little spoiled by having a lot of money.
I still like to play the blues more than anything else.
You can only mend the vase so many times before you have to chuck it away.
I find it hard to get excited by just a sound. I have to have a song there, then I'll find what used I can make of that sound within the song.
For Stevie, the words are of prime importance; the song moves around the words, rather than the words moving around the song.
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.
I haven't lost my blues roots.
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 bought a house in England in 1990, shortly after my father died, hoping to come home to England and spend time with my family.
We all enjoyed the success of Rumours obviously.
I couldn't go anywhere unless there was a security guard with me. That spoiled my life. It was like being in captivity. Those days are gone, and I don't ever want to see that happen to me again. Now I can wander around the streets of Los Angeles on my own. I like it that way.
I enjoy my money, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'd certainly rather be rich than poor.
The old Fleetwood Mac was much better; they did some beautiful and, to my mind, very authentic blues. Chicken Shack did pretty well in Europe, but after I left, it was over.
It really comes down to Mick. He's the one who was constantly trying to get these five people in one room together. This is his love, his baby. It's his band, and there's nothing more he loves to do than get up on stage and play with us.
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.
My songs are self-explanatory... somebody pointed out to me that... my songs pretty much speak for themselves.
