“And there are others that look at it slightly more harshly.”
Lindsey Buckinghamanswers the door to his Brentwood home himself.
That’s marriage."
“I feel like my lyrics have got better over time because they’re a little less literal,” says Lindsey Buckingham.Credit: Michael Tullberg/Getty Images
And that’s exactly what he set out to make.
“It does harken back to wanting to present things in a slightly more accessible form.
You see maybe three generations of people out in the audience that it’s making sense to.”
But I wouldn’t have done it on my own," he reflects.
“I don’t have to write them all down and say, ‘That’s what I mean.’
I feel like my lyrics have got better over time because they’re a little less literal.
“‘Big Love’ was not really a love song; it was about alienation.
That’s an anti-love song.”
“No matter how long you’re with somebody, you’re never going to know everything about them.
You’ve got to accept that, but you’ve also got to give a shot to be truthful.
When asked what he thinks the unifying theme of the album is, he ponders it for a moment.
He’dlike to go back to Fleetwood Mac, if they’ll have him.
Or perhaps he’ll return to a more experimental solo sound.
“I’ll always keep clutching at the weird,” he says.
But for now, he’ll let the new album stand in for everything he wants to say.
“It feels like a unified thing.
It really is representative of the place I was in musically at that time.
I was really creative and prolific, and it just kept coming out.
I was slightly surprised; it just had an entirety that had its own life.”
