Stevie Nicks
Stevie Nicks
Stephanie Lynn "Stevie" Nicksis an American singer and songwriter, best known for her work with Fleetwood Mac and an extensive solo career, which collectively have produced over 40 top-50 hits and sold over 140 million albums. She was deemed "the Reigning Queen of Rock and Roll" and one of the "100 Greatest Singers of All Time" by Rolling Stone, and as a member of Fleetwood Mac, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. As a...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth26 May 1948
CountryUnited States of America
By the time I was five, I was a little diva.
Singing is the love of my life, but I was ready to give it all up because I couldn't handle people talking about how fat I was.
When we started becoming friends, I was really doing a lot of cocaine, and he hated that. Prince was so against drugs.
I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well; I'm not a good terrified person.
It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.
Even the best intentions turn around one day... Nobody's right all the time.
That is the saddest thing: He [Prince] always thought I would die of a drug overdose, and here it happens he dies of an accidental overdose.
If I had my life to live over, I would never dream
Most women would not be happy being me. People say, 'But you're alone.' But I don't feel alone. I feel very un-alone.
If you're an unattractive girl who's trying to be beautiful with Botox, forget it. If you are a beautiful girl who's trying to be beautiful with Botox, you will look like you're angry all the time.
I know he [Prince] is up there saying to me, "This is not the way I wanted it to happen, Stevie."
When you're in a band with three writers, three great writers, you only get one third of the writer thing. So that's the whole reason that I did a solo career. And that's, you know, when I told Fleetwood Mac I was going to do that, they were of course terrified that I would do that record and then that I would quit.
Even in my really bad, drugged-out days, I didn't go away. I still toured, still did interviews. I never gave up the fight. That's why I'm who I am today, because I didn't leave. And I think I made the right choice.
I'm the original hunter-down-of-fabulous-things. Twenty years ago I sat down and decided that I would create a really wonderful image, an unforgettable image. And now I'm kind of stuck with it. It's like when I don't wear my fringy, gypsy stuff, people kind of look at me like, 'What's wrong?