INTERVIEW: Stevie Nicks On A Potential Biopic

Stevie Nicks Discusses Whether She’d Write An Autobiography Or Consider A Film About Her Life ..
It would be such a long movie. You know what I mean? That would be the problem, because what I just told you, I have like thousands of more hours that I could tell you stories that would just make you laugh so hard. I could do this same interview with Faith [Hill] and everything we would talk about would be different. I think that what I would do first and only lately have I thought this, I might sit down at some point across the kitchen table with some of my girlfriends who have been there for a lot of it and put on a tape recorder and just start talking from the very beginning like I did with you. Maybe I’ll write a really fun book. What I wouldn’t put in it, I would very gracefully go over the drugs, because I don’t feel that they defined my life. I managed to save myself. I got through some pretty scary moments, but I saved me, nobody else saved me. I survived me. I survived my cocaine. I survived by myself. I checked myself into rehab. Nobody did that for me. I did it and that’s like with my whole life. So, I would dance over those parts just to give the wisdom out to people, but mostly, I would just tell all of these really fun, funny stories that I’ve been telling you, because those things I would love to share.

 

If I could get it into a book, it would be like Twilight. It would be like four books. And then, if I thought that was great, then I might say, “Well, maybe we could do like a four part thing.” I used to say, “Absolutely no,” not writing a book, not making a movie and don’t ask me to make a musical. I hate them. Hate them. Hate them, except for “Wicked”. “Wicked” is my favourite. If I could be in “Wicked” 20 years ago, I would’ve tried out for it, but otherwise it’s…I don’t have a problem sharing what’s happened to me in my life, because most of everything that’s happened to me, I think has been pretty marvelous. So all that, I would love to tell people and really about all that, I’m not that private. I’m willing to sit and tell you the whole damn story. I would be careful with some things, because I don’t want people to make the same mistakes that I made, that lots of them weren’t my fault. So, I would tell them in a way where people got the message, but it wasn’t gothic and super sad, you know what I mean? That’s not something sacred I want to leave behind.

Stevie Nicks On Her Introduction To Music and Her Grandfather’s Country Music Aspirations…
So my grandad wanted to be a country singer, and I think that his great love and his great dream was to become a country singer. This is my first real memory of the singing thing. He drove up in a truck one time and he had 100 singles, 45s. He and I sat in my little bedroom, on the floor, with a little record player, and we played all of those records. There was everything from Buddy Holly, which was odd because I was in the third grade, to really super, super country stuff. I can remember at one point he said to me, “You’re a harmony singer.” I didn’t even know really what harmony was, but the fact was is that he said, “Because you don’t sing along with Patsy Kline,” or whoever, “You’re singing another part.” And I said, “Oh, so that’s what harmony is?” And he’s like, “Yeah.” He goes, “That’s your sweet spot, that’s what you prefer to do.” So I was like, “Okay. So I can sing either?” And he’d go, “Yeah, you can sing either.” So I started really listening to all those records, and I don’t remember all the different people, I just remember that he’d go and disappear, and I would listen to all those records. From that moment onward everybody was pretty sure that granddaughter Stevie was going to be a singer, because the love of it never died and he kind of kept the flame going because every time he would come he would bring this stuff.

 

Stevie Nicks On Staying in Fleetwood Mac While Starting A Solo Career…

I loved being in a band. Until 1981, I was not the least bit interested in having a solo career. Even when I decided I did want to do a solo record, I was not at all interested in leaving my band and not being in a band anymore. I just wrote way too many songs for Fleetwood Mac. So I started talking to record companies for my solo career like 1980, maybe even 1979, but very quietly. And I made very sure to tell everybody that I talked to, “I’m not looking to leave Fleetwood Mac at all. I’m just looking for another vehicle, so that when Fleetwood Mac goes on their “Let’s go to Hawaii,” year off, I can go in the studio and make a record with the extra 10 songs that they didn’t use.” But after being in Fleetwood Mac for five years, I felt like I had my team. Fleetwood Mac was my team. I had them and I felt safe. So I felt like, “I’m not trying to break up this band. I’m just trying to actually keep this band together.” Because what’s going to keep this band together is me being able to make the odd solo album here and there when you guys are doing other things.