Stevie Nicks says she only has herself to thank for overcoming her serious drug addiction. And while she’s proud to have survived it, she hasn’t let that period of her life completely define her.
The music icon spoke with Tim McGraw on his Apple Music show, Beyond the Influence Radio, on Wednesday. During their conversation, Nicks suggested that she’s been toying with writing her memoirs, but doesn’t want to dwell on her prior experiences with drug abuse. “I managed to save myself. I got through some pretty scary moments, but I saved me, nobody else saved me,” she said. “I survived me. I survived my cocaine. I survived by myself. I checked myself into rehab. Nobody did that for me. I did it and that’s like with my whole life.” She added, “So I would dance over those parts just to give the wisdom out to people.” The Fleetwood Mac singer went on to say that while she is considering publishing her life story, it would probably have to be divvied up between four books. “I think that what I would do first, and only lately have I thought this, I might sit down at some point across the kitchen table with some of my girlfriends who have been there for a lot of it and put on a tape recorder and just start talking from the very beginning,” she explained.
Nicks began to delve into some of that history on the radio show, discussing the origins of Fleetwood Mac and meeting her bandmate Lindsey Buckingham, with whom she’d have a very lengthy and tumultuous on-again, off-again relationship. “I loved being in a band. Until 1981, I was not the least bit interested in having a solo career,” she said. “Even when I decided I did want to do a solo record, I was not at all interested in leaving my band and not being in a band anymore. I just wrote way too many songs for Fleetwood Mac.” So she “very quietly” began to pursue her own music career, releasing eight solo studio albums since 1981 while continuing to tour and record with her band. “Fleetwood Mac was my team,” she explained. “I had them and I felt safe. So I felt like, ‘I’m not trying to break up this band, I’m just trying to actually keep this band together.’ Because what’s going to keep this band together is me being able to make the odd solo album here and there when you guys are doing other things.”
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