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Sara
- Jim Ladd Interview 1979 - "If I ever have a little girl I will name her Sara. It's a very special name to me. I love singing it on stage. It's the absolute delight of my night. There's so much in Sara. And it is, the poet in my heart, for sure."
- Rolling Stone Interview 1981 - about the lawsuit over this song - "There were some great similarities in the lyrics, I never said she didn't write the words she wrote. Just don't tell me I didn't write the words I wrote. Most people think that the other party will settle out of court, but she picked the wrong songwriter. To call me a thief about my first love, my songs, that's going too far. After a few months, the woman's lawyers finally gave up saying 'We believe you.' "
- Tommy Vance Interview 1994 - ""I wrote Sara on the piano, by myself. The original Sara was 16 minutes long. Like about nine more verses than what you hear on the record. It got edited down to 14 minutes, down to 11 minutes, down to 9 minutes, down to 7 minutes, down to 4 minutes and 40 seconds. I was to the point where I went ... Is the word Sara even going to be left in my song? ... I knew that Sara would be very popular because I loved writing that song. I've had more fun writing that, I remember the night I wrote it, I sat up with a very good friend of mine whose name is Sara, who was married to Mick Fleetwood, Sara Fleetwood. She likes to think it's completely about her but it's really not completely about her. It's about me, about her, about Mick, about Fleetwood Mac. Its about all of us at that point. There's little bits about each one of us in that song and when it had all the other verses it really covered a vast bunch of people. Sara was the kind of song you could fall in love with, be cause I fell in love with it."
- MTV show Fanatic 1998 - "Sara was pretty much about Mick. So, he was the "great dark wing." And, it was about everything that was going on at that particular time too ... but he was the ... the reason for the ... you know ... the beginning of it."
Beautiful Child
- Circus Magazine Interview 1979 - "Beautiful Child is a lullaby, it was written two years ago on a Sunday night sometime after midnight and finished before dawn. It is my most special song, from Fleetwood Mac to the children with love."
Sisters of the Moon
- Jim Ladd Interview 1979 - "(Fleetwood Mac) had played for four months and I thought I was going to die. I really did think that I might die. I mean ... I am strong but this is in the beginning. I have learned now how to do it but at that point I had not learned. I walked up in front of a mirror and I looked at myself and I was sick. I went "Oh poor, sad little thing, she must be dying" and I stood back and said ... "But this is you, so then therefore, you must be dying." Then I stood back and said, "but you don't want to die and neither do I, so we must change this now." That's where I said ... and so be my sister, don't let me down this time. Cause I'm not going out on some cloud without you. And you look like you're on your way out now and I'm not going with you ... so we better separate this and put it back together and realize that this is not such a frail creature and that this frail creature is certainly not going to go down for Fleetwood Mac ... or anybody else, so 'intense silenc e as she walked in the room' was me looking at myself." ... "And she was dark at the top of the stairs ... and she called" is me saying "Don't do this to me ... or the people they love her and they keep filling up her room" that's after the gigs where there's a million people and you're being pulled every way and you're going "but does anyone know my name?" "And they like to wrap her in velvet" .. like some kind of weird corpse? Not me! Do it to your other rock and roll stars baby, but I'm not doing that, I love life too much."
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