The legendary Fleetwood Mac star said she’s “not afraid of dying,” but has a long list of things she’d like to accomplish first
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Stevie Nicks is showing no signs of slowing down — whether she likes it or not.
In a candid discussion on mortality with Rolling Stone, the legendary singer-songwriter, 76, predicted she has another two decades or so of life left to live, and revealed that she’s “not afraid of dying.”
“I’ll probably live to be hatefully 95 years old,” she joked. “I have no want to be that old, honestly. I mean, I’ll have an electric scooter, and I will be raging and I will keep dancing.”
Though she’s been busier than ever in recent months, Nicks said she’s “not looking forward to that” when it comes to aging, noting her mother Barbara died at 84, and her father Jess at 80.
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“I think that’s too old… but I’m a younger person at 76 than they were at 76,” she said. “So I figured 88, 89.”
While the Fleetwood Mac star said she’s “not afraid of dying,” she did explain that she has concerns her busy schedule will prevent her from “getting everything together.” She recently appeared as the musical guest on Saturday Night Live, where she performed her new pro-choice anthem “The Lighthouse,” and spent the last year touring stadiums with Billy Joel.
“That’s why I’m really glad this tour’s over, so that I can go and work on an album,” she said. “I haven’t been able to do a lot of the creative things that I love in many, many years. I draw, I write songs, and I write poetry. I’d like to make a perfume because I actually have a smell that I love.”
Nicks, who released her eighth solo studio album in 2014, said she has no imminent plans to retire, but will do so when she feels it’s “age inappropriate” to continue on.
Until then, she’d like to keep touring, though in a slightly different way than the arenas and stadiums she’s used to.
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“Well, if I can stay looking pretty good… When I think that it’s age inappropriate, I won’t do it anymore,” he says. “But then I think I would just bring the shows down. I’d be happy to tour all the beautiful gothic theaters of the United States and Europe, and do two hours and be able to sit in a chair for some of it. Do some songs in my whole catalog that I’ve always wanted to do and never done.”
If she does tour again, it won’t be with Fleetwood Mac. Nicks, the first woman to be inducted twice into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, told Rolling Stone she considers the iconic band “dead” after the loss of Christine McVie in 2022.
Nicks recently about her SNL performance, calling it “just about the biggest thing you can do.”
“If you wanna talk about being nervous about something!” she said in an email interview. “It doesn’t matter how many shows you’ve done or how much you practice, you’re going to be nervous!”
Still, she said she was “really excited” to play “The Lighthouse.”