Lindsey Buckingham Quotes

I don't care about commercial success. I get to do what I love and communicate whatever I want.

I don't want to take up a project for the sake of it. I want to work and follow my passion, and not anything else.

I just want to produce and create projects that I'm passionate about and I love.

There are right and wrong reasons for doing solo projects, and this album was done for the right reasons. At the time there was no Judas Priest and I certainly wasn't going to hang my hat up on my musical career.

I don't make decisions for money or popularity. I do things because they're right for me, and they're interesting and challenging.

People ask whether I put the politics first, journalism first or the comedy first; it doesn't really matter. I'm just playing with the cards that I have been dealt because I really love doing what I do.

You make you work for yourself. It's the feeling of, 'If nobody ever saw it, that'd be fine, too.'

I'm not always the first person to run out and see something I'm in. I don't know; for me, that's not why I did it. I did it because I wanted to act. I don't really think about the end result. I don't feel like I have to see it - for me, it already happened.

The projects that I've been fortunate enough to do are all projects where I followed my heart. I didn't follow the money or the names. It's all about reflecting my life and my art.

I like to receive money for my work. But I can pass that up this time. I like to have people know my work is done by me. But I can pass that up. I like to have tenants made happy by my work. But that doesn't matter too much. The only thing that matters, my goal, my reward, my beginning, my end is the work itself. My work done my way. Peter, there's nothing in the world that you can offer me, except this. Offer me this and you can have anything I've got to give. My work done my way. A private, personal, selfish, egotistical motivation. That's the only way I function. That's all I am.

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.

Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.

I'm just trying to do things that are interesting for me.

I'd love to do films, but I'd feel bad in my gut if I did anything just for the money. I want to wait for something I'm really passionate about, even if I don't work for a year.

I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.

Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.

I like to work on records when I feel inspired, not because it's expected of me.

The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.

I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing. It doesn't matter. I'll do it if it means something to me and I want to be a part of it.

Now I don't work for the money or the glory. I just work because I like building businesses.

If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.

I'm voraciously looking to express myself in my work. I love my work.

I'll always take an artistic endeavor over a career move.