Quotes from Stevie Nicks


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If you want to find somebody and you want to be married and you want to have children, don't make it a rock star.


Prince and I were just friends. I think he would have been happy to have had a relationship.


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.


Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was.


I watched Janis one time - we opened for her - and that's the only time I ever saw her. We opened for Jimi Hendrix. I got to stand on the side of the stage and watch him for two hours and then he died. But I got the essence before they left.


When you're rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not to be. I've talked of sacrificing everything for Fleetwood Mac, but I realize now that it is simply the only thing I've ever wanted to do.


If you see somebody running down the street naked every single day, you stop looking up.


I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing.


If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?


My generation fought very hard for feminism, and we fought very hard to not be labeled as you had to have a husband or you had to be in a relationship, or you were somehow not a cool chick.


I think they all went too far. Their jeans got too low, their tops got too see-through. Personally, I think that sexy is keeping yourself mysterious. I'm really an old-fashioned girl, and I think I'm totally sexy.


Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.


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.


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.


I was not going to be a stupid girl singer. I was going to be way more than that.


You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.


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.


Right now I'm not involved with anybody, but I hope by 75 I will be again.


By the time I was five, I was a little diva.