Education Quote by Lindsey Buckingham

A line like this lands because it’s modest on the surface and radical underneath: it frames artistic growth not as learning more tricks, but as learning to stop asking permission. Coming from Lindsey Buckingham, it reads as a quiet self-portrait of a musician who spent years in the high-wire act of Fleetwood Mac - a band where taste, ego, romance, and commerce all fought for the same microphone. “More confident” is the polite phrasing; the subtext is battle-tested authority.

The phrasing does cultural work, too. He doesn’t say he became “better.” He says he learned. That matters for an artist often treated as either obsessive genius or difficult bandmate. “Trust my instincts more” implies there was a period when instincts were second-guessed - by band politics, by producers, by radio expectations, by the internal noise that comes with being a perfectionist in a famously messy ensemble. It’s a sentence that nods to conflict without naming enemies.

Intent-wise, Buckingham is carving out a narrative of earned autonomy: not youthful swagger, but the confidence that comes after you’ve been wrong, then right, then publicly both. For listeners, the emotional hook is familiar: the older you get, the more your life becomes a series of edits. This is the moment where the artist stops revising to satisfy the room and starts revising to satisfy the song.