Creativity Quote by Christine McVie

It reads like a soft-spoken peace treaty, delivered in Christine McVie's characteristically unshowy style. Fleetwood Mac's mythology is basically a cautionary tale about what happens when a band becomes both workplace and family court, and McVie is naming that history without turning it into tabloid confetti. "Bad feelings" is almost comically understated for a saga that involved public breakups, onstage tension, and decades of fans treating interpersonal drama as part of the set list. The restraint is the point: she refuses to sensationalize the hurt, which gives the line its credibility.

The phrasing also rewrites the story in real time. "Healing", "growing up", "maturing" frames the conflict as something survivable, even useful, rather than a fatal fracture. It's an emotional pivot from rock lore's favorite narrative (genius + dysfunction = inevitability) to something less profitable but more human: people learning how to coexist after they've said unforgivable things and then had to play "Go Your Own Way" anyway.

The most revealing clause is the last one. "The bond is a great deal stronger than what we first thought" admits they underestimated their own attachment - not just to the music, but to each other as a unit. It's not romance; it's mutual dependency forged by shared work, shared damage, shared triumph. Coming from McVie, often the band's stabilizing center, the intent isn't to absolve anyone. It's to assert continuity: the relationship outlasted the mess, and that endurance is its own kind of achievement.