Lindsey Buckingham Quotes

I've been lucky, I've had movies that made a lot of money, so I don't feel like I have to kill every time out. I don't want that pressure. I don't need it.

I think when you've had success, publishers and reviewers and readers are willing to let you try something new if you've already proven yourself. They're excited about what you're doing, you have people interested in it, and actually waiting for it. It's empowering.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

For me, the glory of my first 25 years as a writer was I could put things off as long as I wanted.

Sometimes we think of a creature like a person in a suit, but then you have limitations of two eyes and two legs - they have to see and breathe. I got more into puppetry because it offered more possibilities.

I would rather give up acting than become world famous, because I think you pay a very high price. Writing and putting new plays out into the world has informed what I do, and I've had a lot more freedom to play really interesting parts.

I guess if you're a normal person and all of a sudden you're getting $10 million a year, it can go to your head.

One of the fears of having too much work is not having time to observe. And once you get recognised, there is nowhere for you to look any more. You can't sit on a night bus and watch it all happen.

If there's some triumphant end of the story, I guess in a roundabout way I've gotten what I wanted, which is the ability to do interesting things and the wealth to be free.

To me, being in the big time is not that big of a deal. I've been there; I know what it is. It's exciting, but it's also a lot of work and pressure. I love sort of flying under the radar where we can play theaters and sell CD's on the Internet, and it's really kind of a cool time.

I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.

I'm grateful to be successful, and I'm grateful that we can make a living, and I hope we can maintain our integrity forever. That's really my only dream. The notion of bigness or smallness, I feel like that comes and goes in such waves that are kind of out of my control.

The imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.

Obviously, David [Shore] probably has pressure because House was such an amazing show. But I try not to go into these jobs, thinking that I have to live up to people's expectations.

When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.

When you get the money, you still need to keep going; you don't stop. There has to be something else. I think it's the freedom to do what you want and to live your dreams.

It's not necessarily that satisfying getting monetary success, but sometimes it keeps the door open to make what you want to make.

I'm prepared to forget about money if it affects my creativity because, remember, I started off with nothing. And I can do that again.

What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.

You can do anything when it's not real.

I think that the Christian faith is right as against simple forms of secularism. That it believes that there is in man a radical freedom, and this freedom is creative but it is also destructive. And there's nothing that prevents this from being both creative and destructive.

Money is only interesting for what it lets you do and create.

Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself.

Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.