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All the characters in my songs ~ the Gypsies, the Saras, and
the on this album, Alice and Juliet ~ they're all me. But they're all different
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| Gypsy is about um ...going back to the gypsy that I was prior
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[A place where you felt secure and safe or comfortable?]
And back to me, back to ...you know, uh back to learning to live alone again.
Back to the gypsy. |
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In the song Gypsy it says, Going back to the velvet
underground/ Back to the floor... which means my bed went back on the floor,
with the paper flowers and the, you know, there's a part of that that [era]
there will never be again ...except that it does live in my house because it was
so special. |
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| For me to be a gypsy; for me to write about the
gypsy - and for me to live the life of a gypsy that I love - I sort of almost
have to be almost cold and insensitive to be able to remain that gypsy. It's not
easy to be a hippie-gypsy when you're rich and when you're a rock'n'roll star.
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Dreams was a very real song. Gypsy was very real. |
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Robin had been on the road with Fleetwood Mac for five years. As my speech
therapist and also management, an incredibly efficient helper. I still miss
your bright eyes ~ that's why we don't do it on stage ~ it's because it's
really too hard for me to sing. Lightening strikes maybe once, maybe twice...
that means one time in your life you find a very good friend, and maybe if you're
incredibly lucky, you might find a second. It all comes down to you, means
but you have to look very hard. |
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You also, I think, know this girl. I knew her [Robin]. And she's still
here so I guess... New York was our favorite place, so.... |
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Click
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Yes
in my uh Doheny house - in my English house. I just uh.. I went through an experience
that wasn't particularly pleasant and I moved out of my big English bedroom into
the little back bedroom that was all...the lady that owned this house had put
all this French wallpaper up that was flowers and it was beautifully, beautifully
done. It's just a little tiny room and put my bed back on the floor, moved my
JBLs [speakers] in there, all my plants... all my junk, everything I had into
this tiny little room about as big as this sofa, you know and I just lived in
there for about 3 months. And I, it was really like living back in my apartment
before I joined Fleetwood Mac...it was ...I'm very comfortable living in one little
room with my bed on the floor and kind of lace tacked up at the windows, you know.
[On
being a gypsy]
The
song Gypsy isn't a real happy story. Gypsy is a lot about returning
to San Francisco. And Gypsy was written when my best friend [Robin]
died of Leukemia and uh ...about the fact that she wasn't going to see the rest
of this: I still see your bright eyes, it was like she wasn't ...going
to make it. And uh, I was like the lone gypsy ~ this was my best friend from when
I was 15 and so I was a solo gypsy all of a sudden and it was very sad for me
and that's sometimes when I write my very best songs.
