Mick and John are happy with me writing songs for the band at this particular point in time. I don't know what's going to happen down the road a couple of years.

Since there's only room for me to write a few songs on each band album, I really have to use my songs. But on my own album I had room to use songs I wanted.

Everyone started doing their solo albums. Stevie did two. Mick went to Ghana, Lindsey did Law and Order. At that time I just didn't want to follow suit. I was busy getting the house fixed up, happy being domestic. Inevitably, I woke up one morning bored, started spending more time in the music room.

At the moment I'm really happy.

When I married John, I felt that it was so great to be around them anyway, just as one of their wives. I used to listen to all their music.

I don't separate my work with the band from this solo project-I'm sure the group could have recorded any of these, and they would have if the Fleetwood Mac project had come up at this time. I don't have any finished songs lying around.