Stevie Nicks Quotes

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.

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 saw her do 'Different Drum' and thought, that's what I'm gonna do. I don't look that good in cut-offs, but that's what I'm gonna do.

Stop dragging my heart around.

Even the best intentions turn around one day... Nobody's right all the time.

I'm timeless, I got that Dickensian, London street-urchin look in high school. I'll never be in style, but I'll always be different.

When we started becoming friends [with Prince], I was really doing a lot of cocaine, and he hated that. Prince was so against drugs.

You don’t need help to write a song. You just need to get over this experience that bummed you out so bad. The relationship you were in is over, it was over a long time ago, and you need to move on.

I've seen every one, from Motley Crue to John Denver, with tears running down my face. I had no idea everyone had such a hard time.

Rock and menopause do not mix.

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.

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.

I've always liked long, flowing clothes,...I used to rummage around in my grandmother's trunks trying to find them. I love the feeling of chiffon and lace.

I've always been a Pretenders fan... I'm very excited about this.

The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar.

I want to be age appropriate. I don't want to be that girl you see walking away and she looks 25 and then she turns around and she looks 90.

I hope that my niece in 20 years is going to say to me, 'Aunt Stevie, what was with your hair?'

I'm obsessed with lighting. I'm constantly shopping for different lightbulbs. I love rainbow lightbulbs. And also, one should not live without dimmers. Life is all about lighting.

Klonopin is a horrible, dangerous drug.

I sketch the faces upside down because it's like drawing from the left side of the brain or the right side of the brain. I never took an art lesson in my life.

I'm very proud that a woman, has finally been chosen as a candidate for the president of the United States, because I always felt women should be treated like first-class citizens.

Don't Listen To Her, Listen Through Her." Stevie Nicks

I don't love the years going by. I'd just as soon stay forty-five. But it's OK because I feel a whole lot better than I did at thirty-five.

Thunder only happens when it's raining.

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.

Little girls think it's necessary to put all their business on MySpace and Facebook, and I think it's a shame...I'm all about mystery.

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.

My heart is with Hillary Clinton.

I keep all my poems in my journals and lock them away. They are the start of everything.

I don't really like to be filmed.

You could never in a million years have told me Prince would not be here today.

I know he [Prince] is up there saying to me, "This is not the way I wanted it to happen, Stevie."

The truly incredible thing is were realizing that you can perform a two-and-a-half-hour gig without being high and still have a fantastic time.

It's really hard when you break up with somebody, or somebody breaks up with you, and you're in this band; guess who you have to see in the next day in the hotel in the breakfast room? That person.

I don't like that [scaring] feeling and I watch the news every day because of it. It's going to be hard to fix all of these problems that seem absolutely unfixable to me.

I will always play "Stand Back" anyway. And Prince will always he standing behind me every time I do.

Klonopin - more deadly than coke

Every girl - and boy, if you so choose - should take some ballet. Because ballet gives you grace. It gives you [the ability] to work with your hands. It's all about your hands.

I said,'Instead of going in the direction that a lot of the women singers are going in [revealing], I'll be very, very sexy under 18 pounds of chiffon and lace and velvet...I will have mystique.

That's not going to happen, because I don't want it to happen. I don't want a movie about me until I'm very, very old - when I'm very, very old, everybody that wants to play me will be middle-aged.

Because I missed being with Prince on that [stadium ], and it's a lesson that sometimes you have to push yourself a little harder for your friends.

I wouldn't like to be in movies. Movie people are strange. They live a different life than musicians do.

I feel that the world is in a really dangerous place and it scares me.

I had Botox and I hated it. For four long months, I looked like a different person.

We are just as a good as men are - and maybe better and smarter.

Love is only one fine star away, even though the living is sometimes laced with lies.