Stevie Nicks Is ‘Not Looking Forward’ to Being ‘Hatefully’ Old
At 76 years old, Stevie Nicks still performs live. The singer recently wrapped up a tour and hopes that she will continue to be able to perform for an audience. She said that she predicts living well into her late 80s and “raging” all through the remainder of her life.
Stevie Nicks thinks she’ll live to be quite old
While Nicks was touring, she said she took careful precautions to prevent catching the coronavirus (COVID-19). She worries that the illness could completely ruin her singing.
“I can’t get [Covid] again,” she told Rolling Stone. “I mean, I’m old, so I’ll only be around for another 15 years. But you guys have another 30 or 40 years, so you should think about it.”
In 15 years, Nicks will be in her 90s. She can see herself living this long, but she’s not necessarily excited about it.
“I’ll probably live to be hatefully 95 years old,” she said. “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. But I’m not looking forward to that, really — I think that’s too old.”
Her parents died in their 80s, and she predicts she’ll live longer than they did.
“My mom died at 84, and my dad died at about 80, but I’m a younger person at 76 than they were at 76,” she said. “So I figured 88, 89.”
Stevie Nicks said she does not live with a fear of death
Nicks said she has thought about death. While it doesn’t scare her, she does not want to die without accomplishing all that she hopes to.
“I’m not afraid of dying, but what I am afraid of is not getting everything together, because I’m so busy,” she said. “And that’s why I’m really glad this tour’s over, so that I can go and work on an album. I haven’t been able to do a lot of the creative things that I love in many, many years.”
She shared what she wants to spend the remainder of her years doing.
“I draw, I write songs, and I write poetry,” she said. “I’d like to make a perfume because I actually have a smell that I love. I like to design blankets. Cashmere blankets are my favorite thing. That is what I buy for my friends if there’s a special occasion. I bought Travis Kelce a blanket.”
She said it has been difficult to deal with the deaths of old friends
In recent years, a number of Nicks’ musician friends have died. She spoke about the devastation of losing Tom Petty, Christine McVie, and others. She braces herself to hear about a death every time her assistant starts to tell her something.
“[My assistant] came in to tell me something today,” she said. “And she goes, ‘So, Stevie…’ Every time she says ‘So, Stevie,’ I go like, ‘Please don’t tell me that somebody else died. I wish you would just come in, say my name, and don’t say ‘so’ before, because it’s starting to set me up for tragedy, because we’re old.’”
