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Trouble in Shangri-La
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Trouble in Shangri-La
- RollingStone Magazine 1998 - "It's like Bella Donna, it's a definite concept album. It's about achieving Shangri-La and not being able to handle it."
- RollingStone Magazine 2001 - "It's the whole idea of achieving paradise and how difficult it is to handle it. Trouble in Shangri-La is about a lot of people ... including myself."
- Borders.com Interview 2001 - "Shangri-La is paradise. It came from a long time ago when I was little. I remember there was a TV show called
 'Adventures in Paradise' and I was always fascinated by the idea of adventures in paradise. So, my idea of paradise I changed to Shangri-La ... "Adventures in Shangri-La" but then I realized that whenever you get to Shangri-La there is always going to be a lot of trouble. There just is. If you make it to paradise there's going to be a lot of trouble surrounding you and people have a lot of trouble staying there because of that. People make it to the top of their field and think that that's paradise and it isn't somehow. So I just wanted to keep my little umbrella of Shangri-La over the whole record so that it really was a record about relationships. - The first verse is absolutely about Lindsey and me. When I was writing it I really wasn't conscious of that because I just write long poems. I write p oems with about 20 stanzas and then some of them have to go when you actually put it to a song. But, "I remember him, he was very young, No one spoke like him, he was someone, and I carried on like I couldn't stop, all of it for us baby." All of it for love basically. That verse is about him and that is how the verses started out. The rest of the verses are all about separate people. But they'd all come down to a very common thing trouble in Shangri-La."
Candlebright
- Borders.com Interview 2001 - "I wrote "Candlebright" before Lindsey and I left San Francisco. That was one of the songs we came here with to get our record deal for Buckingham Nicks. "Candlebright" isn't really written about Lindsey, it's written about Lindsey and me ... both of us."
- Borders.com Interview 2001 - "It was written in 1970, so I was only 22. I think I was always dreaming about now. I had never lived away from my parents when I wrote that song. I had no idea what was coming. But I think that song is a pretty amazing premonition because it really is about how I would always travel and basically keep the light in the window so I could find my way back."
Planets of the Universe
- Borders.com Interview 2001 - "Planets of the Universe is written about when Lindsey and I really broke up after the Rumours record."
- Baltimore Sun 2001 - "It's one of the heaviest songs I've ever written, and I wrote it in anger, in all my drama, as dramatic as I was and probably still am. I went back and wrote the first part of the song a couple of months ago because I wanted to soften it a little bit."
- New York Daily Times 2001 - "That was a huge statement for me to make, a very harsh thing for me to say" "It was just for six months that I felt that. I was depressed about love. The song was written when we were recording Rumours in San Francisco. I was tired of the city and very very angry at Lindsey. How strange and funny though that I have lived alone all that time since."
That Made Me Stronger
- Billboard Magazine 2001 - "I remember asking my dear friend Tom Petty to work with me on some songs. I wasn't feeling my best ... I was unsure about a lot of things. He said 'No. You're a premier songwriter. You don't need anyone to help you with your songs. Do it yourself.' It was the jolt I needed."
- Q Magazine 2001 - Tom Petty can say stuff to me that nobody else can. I said "Will you help me get started on this, help me write some songs?" And he got angry with me. He said, "Yeah you had a couple of bad years, but you need to reinvent yourself. You're one of the best songwriters I know. You don't need help" I went home that night and told everyone "This is it - I'm starting a new record."
Bombay Sapphires
- Borders.com Interview 2001 - I wrote it in Hawaii two years ago. At that point, in order to write the rest of the songs for this record, I really had to leave my Enchanted box set and Fleetwood Mac behind. Hawaii was very different than any place I'd ever been. Very green, jade green, very calm, very Zen. And I realized that if you take yourself to a great environment you can just about get over anything. I was looking outside one day and it was like I was almost seeing my past as a little bit of something that I really wanted to leave behind for a while. I was looking past the past ... out to the ocean and how beautiful it was and how white and inviting the sand was. I thought ... I can see past you to the white sand and a message back to me that you are moving on now, you really are moving on. You are letting go of all that stuff that bothered you and you are moving forward. So for me, it was very important that that song be on the record. I recorded that song two other times and I didn't lik e it either time. I went back in for a third time and played it myself to get it the way I had written it when I was in Hawaii that night."
- Borders.com Interview 2001 - "Macy Gray is managed by my manager, Howard Kaufman. I wanted to ask Sting to sing that part but I just chickened out. He was on tour and has a big record out so I thought he must be very busy. At the last minute of "Bombay Sapphire" I thought Macy could do that part really great if she would. The next day she was there, did it in about an hour, and was gone. It was a little moment. As people hear the record all those little moments will be much more special after they've really listened to it and heard what Macy did. She sang a great little part on it. It's very quiet but it's very there."
Fall from Grace
- Wall of Sound Interview 2001 - "Fall From Grace is really about Fleetwood Mac onstage, that's always mostly going to be about me and Lindsey, just about our energy and what a trip it is to be in Fleetwood Mac and walk up there onstage. It's just ... it's grand, you know? It's a very grand thing."
Love Is
- iVillage Interview 2001 - "I went to Canada to do 'Love Is' with Pierre Marchand and Sarah (McLachlan) lives there. So he's, he is her producer also, so he said "I think that I will ask Sarah if she will play piano. How do you feel about that?" Well you know, I think that would be so great. So we were there for a week and her husband played percussion and some drums on it and it was just like a wonderful week, you know? And I loved Canada, I had a great time. I came home and it's like, and also she drew the S on the album cover, that's ... that's really a dragon, that when we were doing the song she just sketched that out and I asked her if I could have it, and she said yeah. I brought it home and turned it the other way to the light and the dragon went from being a dragon to an S. So we used him in the S in my name and so she's really, so Sarah is also a part of it from an art standpoint, from the whole artist thing, you know?"
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