Stevie Nicks is an icon—that’s not up for debate. It’s just the rule. Celebrating her second induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Stevie Nicks sat down with Rolling Stone to discuss her prolific career as a solo artist and as a member of Fleetwood Mac. But what’s most telling about this interview is that she isn’t just a rock god, she’s also seems like a down to earth person who could swap theories about Bran and the Night King. (And you know she doesn’t have any spoilers because she’s still rocking a flip phone.)
The 70-year-old seems to have no plans of ending her five-plus decade career any time soon. She heads out for the upcoming 2019 leg of Fleetwood Mac’s world tour in the coming weeks, but before she jumps back into that, she dropped some excellent nuggets in this interview, including the fact that apparently Harry Styles is her pretend love child with Mick Fleetwood.
He’s Mick [Fleetwood]’s and 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. I love Harry, and I’m so happy Harry made a rock & roll record — he could have made a pop record and that would have been the easy way for him. But I guess he decided he wanted to be born in 1948, too — he made a record that was more like 1975.
Can I also be adopted into the Fleetwood/Nicks family? Apparently her list of adoptive children is a growing one. When asked about the women she’s influenced, Nicks explains that she likens them to daughters, saying that LeAnn Rimes, Natalie Maines (of the Dixie Chicks), and Lady Antebellum’s Hillary Scott have a “silken thread” that connects their music. I would love to have a Dixie Chick as a sister.
Nicks also writes poetry in her spare time. In the interview she describes a “really beautiful poem” she wrote inspired by Anthony Bourdain and a Game of Thrones. Then she talks about her shawl vault, and at this point in the interview, I’m literally dizzy..
She admits that throughout all the phases of her career, there were always people along the way helping her out, including Tom Petty, who is responsible her signature top hat. He’s also low-key the source of the single “Ooh My Love,” which Nicks accidentally stole from him after taking the wrong demo tape.
At the end of the day, the Rolling Stone conversation is just further proof that Nicks is a total badass. And in true rock and roll form, she ends the interview by slamming the Internet, saying, “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 … Girls, don’t take it personally. It’s not you — it’s the Internet.” Even as someone whose work is literally Internet-based, I say, “Hell yeah, Stevie. Tell ’em.”
