“I managed to save myself. I got through some pretty scary moments, but I saved me, nobody else saved me. 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.”
Nicks previously told Rolling Stone of her drug use in the 1970s, stating: “All of us were drug addicts, but there was a point where I was the worst drug addict. I was a girl, I was fragile, and I was doing a lot of coke. And I had that hole in my nose. So it was dangerous.”
Stevie Nicks will be performing at the Sea Hear Now Festival in Asbury, NJ on September 17. Stevie will take the stage on Saturday night and Green Day will close out the festival on Sunday.
Meantime Lindsey Buckingham fires back to Stevie Nicks: "She's Never Been Very Happy". Buckingham claimed his former bandmate, Stevie Nicks, was responsible for Fleetwood Mac’s lack of new material in recent years. 'She was relatively disoriented’
"I have sadly taken leave of my band of 43 years, Fleetwood Mac. This was not something that was really my doing or my choice,” Buckingham, said during a performance in Los Feliz, Calif., Friday night (May 11). “I think what you would say is that there were factions within the band that had lost their perspective.”
Buckingham spoke about Nicks and her changing behavior. He explained that he never thought she was happy.
“That may have something to do with why Stevie is the way she is now,” he said, per the book Fleetwood Mac on Fleetwood Mac: Interviews and Encounters. “Because she is not a musician, she doesn’t share in that thing with us. She can feel totally out of her depth — which she is, on some levels — and you can understand why she doesn’t want to come down to the studio or be involved in certain things.”
“Stevie has never been very happy, and I don’t think the success of her album has made her any happier,” he said. “In fact, it may have made her less happy.”
He shared that she was more demanding when working with the band and wondered if she was expressing discontent.
“She’s flexing some kind of emotional muscles that she feels she can flex now that she’s in a more powerful position,” he said. “There’s a certain amount of leeway in how you can interpret Stevie’s behavior, I’d say, but at the same time there’s no denying that her success is making her feel that she can pull things that she wouldn’t have felt comfortable pulling before. And most of them aren’t particularly worthwhile, but she’s venting something — loneliness, unhappiness or something.” (Cheatsheet)
“It harmed the 43-year legacy that we had worked so hard to build," he said of the group's decision, "and that legacy was really about rising above difficulties in order to fulfill one’s higher truth and one’s higher destiny.”
What that did was to harm – and this is the only I’m really sad about, the rest of it becomes an opportunity – it harmed the 43-year legacy that we had worked so hard to build, and that legacy was really about rising above difficulties in order to fulfil one’s higher truth and one’s higher destiny.”
Speaking to Rolling Stone, Mick Fleetwood explained Buckingham had been asked to leave the band, but said “words like ‘fired’ are ugly references”. “Not to hedge around, but we arrived at the impasse of hitting a brick wall. This was not a happy situation for us in terms of the logistics of a functioning band.”
