Stevie Nicks talks Lindsey Buckingham, Katy Perry and more in a new interview

Stevie Nicks is making the rounds. She released a new song, her first in four years, and returned to SNL for the first time in 41. Today the music legend has a new interview Rolling Stone.

In the story, she talks about a productive creative period she has been going through since Christine McVie's death, which marked the end of Fleetwood Mac in 2022, including many poems and a number of new songs intended for an album. One is called “The Vampire's Wife” and I think it's one of the best songs I've ever written. Because it’s like “Rhiannon,” the story of a character. Who knows, maybe I'll call that the next album The vampire's wife.”

In one section, Nicks explains an incident at Fleetwood Mac's MusiCares concert in 2018 that convinced her that Lindsey Buckingham needed to be removed from the band:

I think that everything happened as it should have. It happened one night, unplanned, at a MusiCares [benefit concert]. I didn't tell anyone it happened in my head until the whole ceremony was over. I picked up a song that night that I did with LeAnn Rimes called “Borrowed.” I took it to play for him because I thought we could make this song wonderful.

He wasn't particularly nice to anyone back then; He wasn't very nice to Harry Styles. I could hear my mother saying, “Are you really going to spend the next 15 years of your life with this man?” I could hear my very pragmatic father – and my parents really liked Lindsey, by the way – saying, “It's time for you to to divorce you.” In between I said, “I’m done.”

Nicks revealed that she had only spoken to Buckingham for “about three minutes” in recent years as McVie held a celebration of McVie's life at Nobu following her death. “I stayed involved with Lindsey for as long as I could,” she said. “You can't say I didn't give it more than 300 million chances.” When asked if Fleetwood Mac would ever consider a farewell tour, she simply replied, “No.”

There's also this point about Nicks not having internet on her phone:

I hate it. About ten years ago, Katy Perry spoke to me about the Internet armies of all singers and how cruel and rancid they were. I said, “Well, I wouldn't know because I'm not on the internet.” She said, “So who are your rivals?” I just looked at them. It was my steely gaze. I said, “Katy, I have no rivals. I have friends. All the other singers I know are friends. Nobody competes. If you leave the Internet, you will no longer have any competitors.”

Read the full interview here.