Love Quote by Lindsey Buckingham

Buckingham’s sentence is doing quiet damage control: it reframes Fleetwood Mac not as a soap opera with guitars, but as an institution built on stubborn, ongoing attachment. The first move is strategic name-checking. “Christine and John” signals the band’s most publicly “resolved” divorce, the one fans can file under mature, functional exes. Then he pivots: “as do Stevie and I,” folding the most mythologized fracture back into the same category of enduring bond. It’s not denial; it’s a rebranding of conflict as continuity.

The key phrase is “deep love,” deliberately broader than romance. It gives everyone an off-ramp from tabloid binaries (together/broken, friends/enemies) and replaces them with something more elastic: care that survives the wreckage. That elasticity matters because Fleetwood Mac’s catalog is basically emotional evidence. If the songs were testimony, this line is Buckingham’s closing argument: the art came from real feeling, and the feeling didn’t evaporate when the relationships combusted.

The clincher is the time stamp: “since I was 17.” It’s not sentimentality; it’s provenance. By anchoring the partnership in adolescence, he claims a kind of primal co-authorship that predates the band’s fame, tours, and later power struggles. Subtext: you can fire a bandmate, you can sue, you can stop speaking, but you don’t neatly sever a creative bond that began before you were fully formed. For fans, it’s reassurance; for the history books, it’s Buckingham insisting the story is less about breakups than about durability.