“That's one of the real downfalls of celebrity. You're something that's...” — Lindsey Buckingham Quote

“That's one of the real downfalls of celebrity. You're something that's about you at some point, and that gets latched onto and pumped into the machinery. Then you start having a million other people telling you who you are, and what you should be doing and why, and it's easy to lose your way.”

“The most disappointing thing to me after 'Tusk' was the politics in the band. They said, 'We're not going to do that again.' I felt dead in the water from that. On 'Mirage,' I was treading water, saying, 'Okay, whatever,' and taking a passive role.”

“The government is a machinery manned by human beings.”

“I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.”

“There's a tendency in this Hollywood machinery to take on too much. You end up not being able to give everything you want.”