I dont separate my work with the band from this solo project-Im sure the group could have recorded any of these, and they would have if the Fleetwood Mac project had come up at this time. I dont have any finished songs lying around.

Some of the best songs I've written, I've written in 10 minutes.

I find it hard to get excited by just a sound. I have to have a song there, then I'll find what used I can make of that sound within the song.

Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing.

You can only mend the vase so many times before you have to chuck it away.

The chemistry was still there. To me, that was the biggest thing: Would the chemistry be there? Can we really go ahead and do this? And it was obvious within the first moment of plugging in the instruments that the magic was still there. It was a fantastic feeling.

I'm looking more like my dogs every day - it must be the shaggy fringe and the ears.