If you think that after a full and rich career Stevie Nicks is out of surprises for you, slap yourself on the wrist. Barely two questions deep in a new interview with Rolling Stone, Nicks explains that the muse takes her where it will: “I have a poem that I’ve written about Game of Thrones, and I have a really beautiful poem that I’m writing about Anthony Bourdain.” I’m on the floor!!!!!!!!!!
A living legend, Nicks has done things like write perfect songs (“Silver Springs” and “Landslide”), befriend Prince and Chrissie Hynde, and appear in cult TV shows like American Horror Story. But she’s not done yet. Oh no. “I want to go back to American Horror Story,” she says. “I tell myself, ‘Do it now, because you’re spry, you’re in good shape, you can still do the splits, you can still dance onstage and wear a short skirt and high six-inch heels.’” I’m agog.
As well as having gone through the minefield of rock music as a woman in the ’60s (she came out triumphant in part thanks to her Fleetwood Mac partner in crime, Christine McVie, with whom she made a “promise…that we would do everything we could do for women, that we would fight for everything that we wanted and get it”), she has carved out a true space for herself as a maverick and a queen. Now she just says incredible things and waits for us to pick our jaws up off the floor. Here are JUST SOME of them. I’m not okay. Call me in the morning! I may not pick up!!!!
Harry Styles is her love child.
“[Harry Styles is] my love child. When Harry came into our lives, I said, ‘Oh my God, this is the son I never had.’ So I adopted him.” Help, I need a doctor. Please, I’m very unwell!
Her secret Game of Thrones identity is…unexpected.
“I feel like Prince is with me. When I’m nervous, I’ll talk to Prince. In my solo act, when I do ‘Moonlight,’ I wear this white wolfy coat—I put this coat on and I try to transform into a Dire Wolf from Game of Thrones.”
“And before I go on, I always say, ‘Walk with me, Prince.’”
There is no such thing as casual style for Stevie, only something called “cashmere thoughts.”
“I wear this serious French corset onstage. If you want yourself to drop dead a couple of hours sooner than you would normally, just squeeze into that corset. I could never go onstage in street clothes because it’s not who I am. I could never go out there in a pair of jeans and a denim jacket. I mean, I don’t do casual very well. Even my normal life, I’m in cashmere pants and a cashmere sweater and cashmere thoughts.”
There will never be a better memoir title than this one she just came up with.
“I have my shawl vault—they’re all in temperature-controlled storage. I have these huge red cases Fleetwood Mac bought, all the way back in 1975—my clothes are saved in these cases. All my vintage stuff is protected for all my little goddaughters and nieces. I’m trying to give my shawls away—but there’s thousands of them. If I ever write my life story, maybe that should be the name of my book: There’s Enough Shawls to Go Around.“
She has a flip phone and she knows dating is hard out there for a bitch and ADGHSDOGDSOGHASDOGH
“I like my flip phone. But I don’t like what the Internet has done to people and I don’t like the fact that it’s nailed romance to the wall. … I’m not in a relationship and haven’t been in one for a long time, because I have chosen to follow my musical muse all over the world. When I was 20, 30, 40, I always had a boyfriend—always. But I have decided I’m just going to be free and follow my muse and do whatever I want, because I’m 70 years old and I can. That’s my choice. But if you do want to find romance? Throw away your fucking phone.”
If you’re looking for me, you won’t find me, because I’m out getting this whole interview tattooed on my body. If you want to read it for yourself, you can, right here.
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