The new book is a pictorial book, which stays very much focused on the beginnings of Fleetwood Mac -- 1967 thought the next eight years -- and it's very much regarding what drove us as young musicians, which was blues, it's really a journey that chronicles all of those early years that are mostly unknown in America.

Mick Fleetwood

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If you were to ask me, “What the hell does a musician have in common with a restaurant?” I would say a huge amount. It’s showtime every day, it’s a team of people, like, running a circus, which is running a rock-and-roll band.

Mick Fleetwood

rocks team running

Fleetwood Mac has been pretty truthful. Open about what we do. We've always done it from the inside out. Versus being pressured from the outside and changing the inside. And that's our story.

Mick Fleetwood

truthful done stories

We're all looking for those moments - a relief. That's why people go out and treat themselves.

Mick Fleetwood

relief moments people

The down side these days is thinking that, “I can do this all on my own”. Yes, you can do this on your own but you’ll be a much happier human being if you do it with other human beings.

Mick Fleetwood

yes-you-can sides thinking

My template for most songs is 'Is this inspiring?' and with the blues it so often is.

Mick Fleetwood

often-is song

Life is a glass of wine and having your feet washed - it's a biblical event, might I add. This is part of mankind's story. You are always looking for a moment to take a break.

Mick Fleetwood

biblical glasses wine

To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing; the blues can be really positive and I think I think anyone and everyone can have a place for the blues. It need not always a woeful, sorrowful thing. It's more reflective; it reminds you to feel.

Mick Fleetwood

melancholy needs thinking

The value of friends has always been a natural thing. I prefer too many to too few.

Mick Fleetwood

natural-things values natural

The world's worst is when you find yourself going like Mother Hubbard and cupping your hand behind your ear. I was a major glutton for volume: 'Gotta feel it, gotta hear it.' Sooner or later you're going to pay the reaper.

Mick Fleetwood

finding-yourself mother hands

Fleetwood Mac were really accessible musically, but lyrically and emotionally, we weren't so easy. And it was our music that helped us survive. But all of us were in pieces personally.

Mick Fleetwood

fleetwood-mac pieces easy

In order to run a great business, you must know that a bunch of really intrinsically unhappy people, that's not a recipe for success. Don't be anywhere you don't need to be; it's just like that.

Mick Fleetwood

running order people

John Lee Hooker became a friend of mine and I love all of his work. He was truly an icon. He lived the life. I miss him.

Mick Fleetwood

mines icons missing

I love wearing a lot of color, and I am majorly into scarves. I'm the Beau Brummell of Fleetwood Mac, no doubt.

Mick Fleetwood

scarves color doubt

I learned music listening to Elvis' records. His measurable effect on culture and music was even greater in England than in the States.

Mick Fleetwood

records listening culture

No matter what - rehearsed, under-rehearsed, over-rehearsed, doubts about rehearsing - the first gig is always the first gig, and you put on your little praying hat, batten down the hatch, and do what you do.

Mick Fleetwood

gigs doubt littles

I keep fit, I work out, I eat pretty damn well, I don’t drink like a fish, and all of those things are tempered with a holistic mind-set that you need to damn well respect the vehicle that you’re walking around in.

Mick Fleetwood

work-out mind needs

Rock and roll is commitment. Rock and roll is passion and spirit.

Mick Fleetwood

rocks passion commitment

I'm a huge supporter of anything that nurtures creativity, the nearest thing that you'd get in this conversation which is vaguely political would be for the survival of the creative arts in school at the youngest age possible through university.

Mick Fleetwood

politics

All of these things mean everything to me because without that I wouldn't be standing here( without arts education), and it's something that is universal -- and vaguely political, but not really.

Mick Fleetwood

politics

I think it's all personal choice. Hey, if you go straight to the source and are someone like Bob Dylan or John Lennon who made very specific choices about what they chose to do -- that had direct political meaning, that's something that that we haven't touched on. We're a band that mostly, if not entirely, relates to human relations and emotive content that means a damn, and we're very comfortable.

Mick Fleetwood

politics