I just find things that work and embellish them.
After a couple of failed attempts, I came up with a weird tuning where I was dropping the G string down a step so that it became a seventh, and it got me to a place where I could play all these figures fairly easily. It was not an easy thing to work out.
When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process.
When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making.
When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done.
In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
I was doing acting work at Fox - bit pieces with Greg Peck in The Gunfighter and things like that - and grew up more or less as a Fox contract player in about two years.
Today I have 35 people who work in the club and associated businesses.
The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the world, and we took the best parts from them, and we created a person that had never existed. We then started to work toward being such a person.
You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport - six to seven hours daily.
I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.