Stevie Nicks Revealed a ‘Big Regret’ That She Didn’t Remedy Until Recently
In recent years, Stevie Nicks said she has worked to remedy one major regret from earlier in her life. The Fleetwood Mac singer said that for much of her life, she did not think of herself as a political person. Now, she is much more engaged and hopes to encourage women to vote. She said she has come to regret the fact that she didn’t vote until recent elections.
Stevie Nicks said she feels a lot of regret about not voting
In 2024, Nicks released “The Lighthouse,” a song she wrote following the overturning of Roe v. Wade. She hopes the song’s message will encourage women to vote, something she did not do until recently.
“I’m going to reach out to women and say, ‘You have to vote,’” she told Rolling Stone. “You have to. I never voted until I was 70 years old because I wasn’t at all political.”
She always believed she was too busy to engage in politics, a line of thinking that she has come to regret.
“I was incredibly busy, I was having a fitting, and I didn’t want to do jury duty,” she said. “It’s a big regret.”
Stevie Nicks does not regret supporting a candidate in the 2024 election
In the leadup to the 2024 election, Nicks spoke about how much she likes Vice President Kamala Harris as a candidate.
“I feel very optimistic about [the election],” she said, adding, “I love the fact that she laughs. I love the fact that she’s full of joy. I love the fact that she fell in love with somebody later in her life, and has a family and that they call her ‘Momala.’ I love that. I have great respect for her, being willing to take on such a serious job, with so much going on in the Middle East and Ukraine, which is my heart.”
Nicks said she doesn’t like the word “endorse.” Still, she wants to make it abundantly clear that she is supporting Harris in the election.
“I think I’m totally endorsing her by naming her as a lighthouse,” she said. “I don’t like the word ‘endorsing,’ but what I like is the fact that she is our great hope to save the world.”
She shared what she hopes to convey with ‘The Lighthouse’
Nicks recently released “The Lighthouse,” which she began working on two years ago.
“When Roe v. Wade was banished, I turned on Morning Joe and I swear to God, I thought Mika [Brzezinski] was going to crawl over the desk,” she said. “What she did was remind me what a loss this was. Because I can remember being so happy when it came into being in 1973. It was like we were safe … I was just really freaked out after I saw [the news], and that was the inspiration for this song.”
She said she never writes in the morning. That day, though, she felt so inspired that she began working on the song right away.
“I wrote the words in the morning. I never write in the morning, and I hadn’t even had a cup of coffee,” she said. “But I just wrote the whole thing. Then I closed the book and went back to sleep. It sounds like Marvin Gaye walking down a seedy alley and singing about life, and he runs into Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters when he turns the corner. That’s how I hear it.”
