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Stevie Nicks on how she wrote 'Dreams,' her signature style, book plans and not being able to tour: 'This virus has stolen time from me' - Yahoo Entertainment

Stevie Nicks on how she wrote 'Dreams,' her signature style, book plans and not being able to tour: 'This virus has stolen time from me' - Yahoo Entertainment

Stevie Nicks on how she wrote 'Dreams,' her signature style, book plans and not being able to tour: 'This virus has stolen time from me' - Yahoo Entertainment
Oct 17, 2020 7 mins, 53 secs

Whether it’s in the cosmic lyrics to classic songs like Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” (which is a bigger hit than ever, thanks to Nathan Apodaca’s TikTok skateboarding video); her eloquent, journal-like social media posts; her new fever-dreaming comeback single, “Show Them the Way”; or her utterly unfiltered interviews like the one below, Nicks is a brilliant thinker, a consummate storyteller and an absolute icon.

And he said to me, in all of his 26-years-old-ness, “Stevie, I think it’s going to be a long time before we can walk onstage again.

I don’t think that we will walk onstage again until the end of 2021, and maybe not until 2022.” And now I’m like, “Oh my God, this man is more psychic than I am!” Damn, if he wasn't right.

I turn the television on for 15 minutes and it’s showing every single state and the upticks in every single state, still going up.

I’m not going to have brain fog for the next five years of my life.

I am not going to be made into an invalid at 72 years old.” So I have, like, put a thin plastic shield of magic safety around me, and I’m really super-careful.

And that really makes me angry, because I thought I took pretty good care of myself, my whole life — I mean, I got to 72 and I’m still wearing six-inch heels, and I can still get away with wearing a short chiffon skirt onstage if I want.

I think it’s a little bit of magic.

And this is a story that nobody actually really knows.

I walk in and it’s a big studio with a sunken circular shape, actually like a lighthouse, like a circle, and there’s keyboards all around, a bunch of keyboards that went down this tunnel kind of thing.

So you can stay in here as long as you want.” So I got up on that bed and sat there and just kind of vibed out for 15 or 20 minutes, and then I just started playing — and I started playing “Dreams.” And within about 20 minutes, it was written and recorded — I mean, super-simply, but nevertheless, I thought, “Thank you, Sly Stone and the spirits of Sly Stone and all of your band.” And so I walked out back down the hallway and I walked into Fleetwood Mac’s studio, and I said, “Listen up, everybody.

I think I have something that you want to hear.” I played them a little recording of “Dreams,” and we recorded that song that night.

Once you let it go, once you put it out there, it’s like a baby.

I’d really been thinking about it like lately before this whole [pandemic] happened.

I always thought how fun it would be to actually really disguise myself — like be me, but look like a bad rendition of Stevie Nicks, so that I could really actually be anonymous and just be walking around and just be talking to everybody.

… And then at the very end, I’d just walk out onstage to a track of “Edge of Seventeen” and just launch into that song and everybody would all of a sudden stop and look up and freak out.

Lady Gaga actually pulled a stunt like that on RuPaul’s Drag Race.

I did have a friend that actually made me a couple pairs of really slinky bellbottom pants, like Janis Joplin pants, and some little tops that went with them.

So I met Margi and I said, “Listen, this is what I want to look like.” And I drew a stick-girl with a little velvet riding jacket and a little skirt with little points.

I said, “I want to look a waif in a Charles Dickens story.” I also wanted really heavy-duty, beautiful platforms, so they would be comfortable.

I didn’t want to have to think about what I’m going to wear.

And I looked at myself in the mirror when I put it on and I thought, “This is the best you’re going to ever look.

When you’re 60, this is still going to look good on you, unless you’ve gotten really fat.

And it’s like, it’s not just me.

She had cream-colored boots on and the pink skirt and a little jacket and her hair was all done up like a Gibson Girl with a button thing on her head, and I just thought, “Oh my God, if I ever, ever have any money, that's what I want to look like.” That was 1969?

No, it was just some girl who looked really special?

Wade was passed, I was like, “Thank God that this has now been put back in the women’s hands, because each one of us should have the right to do what we want with their own body.” If you have a sick baby growing in your stomach and you can’t afford that sick baby, and you already have three others, I think that only you as the woman who is the mom can make that decision on what to do.

I'm trying to actually write more than I used to, like with a pen and paper, and explain things.

When I write something, I really try to make it more understandable, in a more poetic way.

Like, I had to write something about Tom Petty last night.

I’ll just go off on some kind of tirade?

Let me just sit and write it.” And it came out really beautiful, because I had written it.

So I am getting to the point now where I’m picking up my pen and really writing stuff that I’m allowing to go out, because I’m starting to realize that a lot of people actually would like to see more writing.

I think it would be a really beautiful book, if I can get some help from all of my girlfriends who have been watching me write in these journals every night for a hundred years to sit and help me go through them all and pull out the pieces.

I don't really want to write a “book about Stevie Nicks,” an autobiography.

But to put out the vignettes of my life, the great things, the great romantic moments … the really hard moments, the really sad moments, those things I’m not so up on putting out, the terribly awful things!

Like, do I want to write a bunch of stuff about doing drugs.

Go back and read all my interviews, if you want to hear about that, because it’s all out there.

Sometimes you make these like blanket statements of “I’ll never do that,” and then two years later, the right person comes to you and talks to you about it and you're like, “OK, that actually sounds kind of good.”.

Because I think that if you are really strong and you have a great job, then… like, what is your last name.

I have had a few boys that actually were really lovely and actually totally enjoyed my crazy life and and my crazy girlfriends and thought what I did was fantastic and were never jealous of me.

And that’s the kind of man that we would want, but they're far and few between.

And when I actually did find a couple of guys like that, a long time ago, maybe if I had decided that I just going to stick with this one guy, I might’ve actually had a happy husband, somebody that I really was well-suited for.

It was like, “So, how long are you going to be gone?” And I’m like, “I don't know.

It's not that I’m not feeling romantic, because I can still sit down and write a really good love song.

I always think, “Maybe around the next corner might be that perfect person who’s going to be your person.” But I’m not looking for it, and I don't expect it to happen.

I would be surprised and happy, but I’m not going to spend the rest of my life waiting to walk around that specific corner either.

— we kind of just have to take everything as it comes and be happy with what we have.

I think that maybe most of us who really search for what we want, kind of get what we want in the end.

I think probably being the first woman to go into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame for my own work — going in as Stevie Nicks last year, after already being inducted with Fleetwood Mac in 1998.

It’s fine with me.” I also really like Halsey, because she’s kind of crazy and weird and I just really like her for that.

Putting that together made me go, “Wow, if we’ve got another year of this — and please, God, say I’m wrong — then maybe I might just make another record, like soon.” I might just start on something else, because it’s been really fun and I’ve really enjoyed it

It’s the first time that I’ve really written a song that was not just a really good song, but it was a really good song with a purpose

And so I’m hoping that they keep playing it, and then it actually does what I sent it out into the world to do

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