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.
More Quotes by 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.
I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instincts more.
It hasn't always been easy, but you get to a point where you're not doing the solo stuff with any kind of expectation in terms of commercial or a business outcome, you're doing it because you believe in this.
You could say that Fleetwood Mac is a bit of a dysfunctional family, but we are a family.
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.
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.