Christine McVie

Music left my life for a while, to be honest. It wasn't that I didn't like it, but you know, I'm not really a solo player.

I tend to go for these half-little-boy characters.

I tend to like the traditional sound: three-part harmonies, guitar, and piano. I mean, a well-played guitar is a joy forever... or something.

I don't know what it is really... I think I'm just good with hooks.

I didn't open a restaurant, but I did go to a few cooking schools. It was too much like hard work!

The 2018 tour is supposed to be a farewell tour. But you take farewell tours one at a time.

We've always connected musically in Fleetwood Mac because we're the only people who play more than one note. I'm not the best pianist, but I know how to interlace around what Lindsey's playing.

I want to go out and do things... not just stick around having room service for two days.

I don't think talent or the gift ever goes away.

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.

I have always needed other musicians to bounce off.

I wouldn't like to grow old alone.

There are so many songs that have become massive hits merely because the video is great, while the song is pretty rubbish. From that point of view, I think I've always preferred to listen to a song rather than look at it.

'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 like being with the band, the whole idea of playing music with them.

I suffered from some delusion that I wanted to be an English country girl, a Sloane Ranger donning the old Hunter boots and Barbour jacket to slosh around in mud with the Range Rover.

As long as I can make a phone call and do a WhatsApp, I'm fine.

Anyone I don't know, in my emails or texts, I just delete. If it's someone legitimate, they'll send it again.

My songwriting, when I'm writing, is nothing like it is in its finished form - but you have to start somewhere.

My contribution is the romance and the warmth. The love songs.

I actually enjoyed making 'Tango In The Night.'

Fleetwood Mac always take a long time to make a record - you know what.

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.

I don't sing about politics or anything like that. I sing about love. That's what I know about.

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.

Everything is for the good in the end.

I felt very at home in California, but the place is prone to earthquakes, and the one in 1994 scared the life out of me. For months afterwards, I felt that every time I sat down, I should have put on a seatbelt.

I think there's a reason to go off and do something and experiment - splinter off and do something different. It keeps the nucleus of Fleetwood Mac fresh.

With Fleetwood Mac, it's an amazing chemistry that we have on stage.

I'm pretty low-key. I travel fairly light, especially on the tour.

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 was by no means a nun.

'Mirage' was an attempt to get back into the flow that 'Rumours' had. But we missed a vital ingredient. That was the passion.

Recording 'Tusk' was quite absurd. The studio contract rider for refreshments was like a telephone directory.

When you're in the same band as somebody, you're seeing them almost more than 24 hours a day. You start to see an awful lot of the bad side 'cause touring is no easy thing.

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 always did have a kind of candle shining for Peter Green. I mean, he was my god.

My ears are really good. I'm a good listener.

I had the feeling every time I was on a plane everyone was going to die. It was a horrible phobia. A stupid one.

If the right guy pops the question, I'll say yes.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

My writing ability all stems from the blues.