Creativity Quote by Christine McVie

Fame, in Christine McVie's telling, isn't a glittering reward; it's a fluorescent-lit panic attack between the cassette rack and the checkout line. The detail work matters: Tower Records in San Francisco, cassettes, strangers clutching albums. This isn't an abstract complaint about celebrity culture. It's a scene you can smell - plastic shrink-wrap, city air, the mild chaos of a public store - where recognition turns ordinary errands into a gauntlet.

McVie reaches for comedy to keep the fear from sounding precious. "Cover my face and have a seizure or something" is intentionally over-the-top, a self-mocking exaggeration that broadcasts the real feeling without demanding pity. The punch line, "I want people to just go away", lands bluntly because it refuses the expected script: artists are supposed to be grateful, fans are supposed to be harmless, the exchange is supposed to be mutual. She breaks that social contract in public, and the honesty stings.

The subtext is a quiet argument about consent. Fans "ran up" - a verb that frames admiration as invasion. Autographs and attention become a kind of forced intimacy, collapsing the boundary between the private person and the public product. Coming from a Fleetwood Mac figure who often projected steadiness amid the band's famous chaos, the quote also signals how fame can feel less like adoration than like surveillance: even when nothing bad happens, your body is bracing for it.