Lindsey Buckingham Quotes

Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.

I'm done in this business, that's for sure.

I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream about it.

I just did one movie and there was no career for me, anyway.

I have to play as much of the game as I allow myself to get the music heard. But it's not unlike the rest of the world, so I'm not as up in arms about it as I could be.

If that's the way the game is played, I don't want to play anymore.

It just gets frustrating playing the girlfriend, It's just this awful feeling, sitting in your house, waiting for a script to come. I like to be more proactive.

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

I once joked in a book that there are three things you can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he is ready to see you, and you can't go home again.

We have to achieve what we can, and if we haven't yet learned that we are not always going to get our way this could be frustrating.

But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.

The filmmakers who I'm pining to work for aren't ringing my phone off the hook.

Of course, I'm sour that if (retirement) happens, I didn't get to quit on my own terms.

I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils.

I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.

I was briefly bitter.

I came to Congress hoping to change the world; I now hope to be able to leave with my dignity.

Nothing is going the way it was supposed to.

The indie movie world is like a bad Tinder date, and there are always strings attached.

I would adore to make up with the United States of America... Oh, America, what is the matter with you? Why couldn't you have been my friend?

If I've only got a career if I bring David Brent back, you can have it.

I started out writing stories because that's all I wanted to read, but now I don't know if I'll ever write one again.

I give up on pop music. As far as a commercial entity, as far as pop music goes, I quit; I absolutely throw in the towel. I can't handle it. I can't do it. I can't be what they need you to be.

When you've been living in hope for a long time as I have, suddenly you realize that certainty is far more desirable than hope.