Lindsey Buckingham Quotes

Yeah, I came in at the end of the Notorious album, played on about five tracks and then we went on a tour. Then we did another album, Big Thing, and then we started writing songs together in 1989.

It's getting harder and harder to feel inspired to spend six months on a record.

Back in 1985, I was working on my third solo album when the band came to me and asked me to produce the next Fleetwood Mac project. At that point, I put aside my solo work - which was half finished - and committed myself for the next seventeen months to producing 'Tango in the Night.'

We spend more time on the road and when we cut an album, it'll take us as long as six months.

Every album I've ever been involved in, on the day that it came out I believed in it.

When we came off the tour for the last album, we started on this one. We've just been chipping away at it. We're not in that much of a hurry, because when we release a Blur album, that's a three year promotion and touring cycle.

Seven and the Ragged Tiger took six months to record and finish.

Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.

I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.

I want to go to Nashville and get cracking on this album.

If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.

Well, for the My Generation album, there was nothing to be nervous about in them days. We used to take every day as it came. Every day was just a gig and I think we did the recording between gigs literally.

We'll probably be working on another album in the next few months here.

I had a recording contract with Capitol Records. I loved recording and being in that studio. I made four albums.

I actually enjoyed making 'Tango In The Night.'

The whole idea of doing an album is overwhelming sometimes. But, I get inspired when I get inspired and that's when it flows easily.

I strongly believe in the art form of the album.

With my second album, eOne Music really wanted me to rock it up a little bit.

One of my favorite moments was when me and Jay-Z made a song 'For Rhyme or Reason.' It ended up on 'Reasonable Doubt,' but they switched the beat because we couldn't get clearance from my label.

When you record an album in six days, you don't have time to work out a lot of stuff.

And I had such a great working experience with Paul during the 'RAM' album.

I wrote a whole solo album and recorded some of it, even did a little tour with Sara Lee and Gail Ann Dorsey.

It doesn't make sense for me to try to be, like, a dance dude who only releases two 12-inches a year and then plays every weekend. Making an album, you get to put out a body of work that shows a lot of different sides of you. And you get to work on it for an intense period of time and promote that album. And then you get to move on.

Sometimes albums can be quick, sometimes they take forever, and we're very good at taking forever.

If I had a nickel for every time someone asked, 'When are you doing an album?' My career is way too transparent to do say, 'Guess what - I've got 16 tracks you've never heard!'