Top 90 Stevie Nicks Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Stevie Nicks

52. “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.”

— Stevie Nicks

53. “We fought very hard for feminism, for women’s rights. What I’m seeing today is a very opposite thing. I don’t know why, but I see women being put back in the place. And I hate it. We’re losing all we worked so hard for and it really bums me out.”

— Stevie Nicks

54. “Men are going to go out on the road and they’re going to find other women. So if you really want to save yourself a whole lot of heartache, do not fall in love with somebody in a band. Just don’t.”

— Stevie Nicks

55. “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.”

— Stevie Nicks

56. “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.”

— Stevie Nicks

57. “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.”

— Stevie Nicks

58. “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.”

— Stevie Nicks

59. “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.”

— Stevie Nicks

60. “The female rock-‘n’-roll-country-pop songwriter is back, and her name is Taylor Swift. And it’s women like her who are going to save the music business.”

— Stevie Nicks

61. “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.”

— Stevie Nicks

62. “The people that can’t sing anymore that had great voices are the people that went away for five years and then just decided to come back. And you just can’t make a comeback. Comebacks are no good. You have to just keep singing. Or keep dancing.”

— Stevie Nicks

63. “If you’re an unattractive girl who’s trying to be beautiful with Botox, forget it. If you are a beautiful girl who’s trying to be beautiful with Botox, you will look like you’re angry all the time.”

— Stevie Nicks

64. “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.”

— Stevie Nicks

65. “Stop dragging my heart around.”

— Stevie Nicks

66. “I was not going to be a stupid girl singer. I was going to be way more than that.”

— Stevie Nicks

67. “But for me, I knew that if I had a baby, I would have to take care of that baby, and I wouldn’t have been happy with a nanny taking care of my baby and walking into the room and having my child run across the room to another woman.”

— Stevie Nicks

68. “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.”

— Stevie Nicks

69. “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.”

— Stevie Nicks

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

— Stevie Nicks

71. “Rock and menopause do not mix.”

— Stevie Nicks

72. “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.”

— Stevie Nicks

73. “The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar.”

— Stevie Nicks

74. “There is a part of me that has to depend on fantasy, because if you can’t be somewhat of a fantasy person, then you can’t write.”

— Stevie Nicks

75. “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.”

— Stevie Nicks

76. “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.”

— Stevie Nicks

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

— Stevie Nicks

78. “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.”

— Stevie Nicks

79. “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.”

— Stevie Nicks

80. “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.”

— Stevie Nicks

81. “I don’t really like to be filmed.”

— Stevie Nicks

82. “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.”

— Stevie Nicks

83. “I didn’t want to look like anyone else – like Janis Joplin or Grace Slick. That’s why I never went to any of the big designers.”

— Stevie Nicks

84. “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.”

— Stevie Nicks

85. “Most bands people have side projects and it’s not considered a death threat as it was say, with The Beatles.”

— Stevie Nicks

86. “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.”

— Stevie Nicks

87. “I’ve never been to a strip club but I turn on MTV and see in every single video what it must look like... if you have to work so hard at appearing sexy, then perhaps you weren’t that sexy after all, perhaps your music has no sensuality, perhaps your music is dull, indeed, that you have no choice but to pelvic thrust your way through a pop video in a leather bikini in order to detract from its mediocrity... it might be advisable to do something else.”

— Stevie Nicks

88. “If you see somebody running down the street naked every single day, you stop looking up.”

— Stevie Nicks

89. “By the time I was five, I was a little diva.”

— Stevie Nicks

90. “Right now I’m not involved with anybody, but I hope by 75 I will be again.”

— Stevie Nicks

91. “What has Rock and Roll ever done for us? Everything.”

— Stevie Nicks

92. “Don’t Listen To Her, Listen Through Her.” Stevie Nicks.”

— Stevie Nicks

93. “It was hard when you practice that hard and you sound that good and everybody tells you that you should be doing something else... You want to say, ‘Obviously we’re not from the same planet’... Lindsey and I just couldn’t understand how we could sing a beautiful song and nobody liked it. It was like, ‘We don’t belong here, nobody understands us.”

— Stevie Nicks

94. “Don’t listen to her listen through her.”

— Stevie Nicks

95. “She is like a cat in the dark and then she is the darkness.”

— Stevie Nicks