Stevie"Nicks is an American singer and songwriter who in the course of her work with
Fleetwood Mac
and her extensive solo career has produced over forty Top 50 hits and sold over 140 million albums.
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Born:
Stephanie Lynn Nicks
Born:
May 26th, 1948 (age
)
From:
Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.
Height:
5' 2" (157 cm)
Parents:
Jess and Barbara Nicks
Spouse:
Kim Anderson
(January 29 1983 - April 1984) (divorced)
Alma mater:
San Jose State University
Occupation:
Singer, songwriter
Years active:
1967–present
Genres:
Pop rock
Instruments:
Vocals, piano, keyboards, tambourine
Associated acts:
Fleetwood Mac
Buckingham Nicks
Tom Petty
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Sheryl Crow
Warren Zevon
Did You Know:
• She appeared as herself in the the TV series "American Horror Story: Coven" (2013)
Stevie Nicks Awards:
1982
Nominated for 2 Grammy Awards for Best Rock Vocal Performance - Female ("Edge Of Seventeen") and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal ("Stop Draggin' My Heart Around
1983
Nominated for an American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist.
Stevie Nicks Quotes:
All my feather stuff is in L.A. at a temperature-controlled stage-storage place. I keep all my good stuff there because if I had it all in my house, I wouldn't have any room for my regular clothes. It has to, like, not live here.
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.
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.
Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was.
For 70 nights, right across America, I've been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we've been playing songs which are so specific about each of us, you just wouldn't know. We're friends now but we can't forget what happened between us.
He and I were about as compatible as a rat and a boa constrictor.
I hated Chris, my brother. I would pull his hair and kick him, until one day my father gave him permission to fight back. I'll be apologizing to him for the rest of my life.
I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer.
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.
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.
I was not going to be a stupid girl singer. I was going to be way more than that.
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.
I'm doing lots of interviews and stuff. I'm longing for the days of getting up, not having to put on makeup and do my hair and just going to the studio.
If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?
If you see somebody running down the street naked every single day, you stop looking up.
In comparison to the eight years I spent on Klonopin, the cocaine and brandy wins hands down. If you are ever in a drugstore and they put you on Klonopin, run out of there screaming.
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.
My other family is Fleetwood Mac. I don't need the money, but there's an emotional need for me to go on the road again. There's a love there; we're a band of brothers.
Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, at the very least, not let it take me over.
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.
The truly incredible thing is we're realizing that you can perform a two-and-a-half-hour gig without being high and still have a fantastic time.
We don't need to have somebody that's gonna make sure they pay for our market bills. It's like we have only one reason to love and that is for the real idea of love.
Well, if the earthquake happens, I've got my steel-toed shoes and some rope, and we'll get down a mountain.
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.
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.
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