“I’ve made many mistakes along the way, but I was, you see, because I did watch them from a close, close view, through the looking glass, I saw them and how they went down. And so there was a part of me that said, “I want to go down with them also”, and another part of me that said, “Isn’t it too bad that Jimi Hendrix isn’t still here? What would he be doing now? Isn’t it really very sad that Janis Joplin is not still here?” You know, I could start naming you other people that I’m very, very sad that are gone, and that I still wish that were here. I wish that Oscar Wilde had lived another 20 years so that he could’ve written another Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, but he was a notorious drug addict. I don’t regret his drug addiction, I regret the fact that he couldn’t have managed to hang in there for another 20 years so that I would have another book of his. And that, I think, is what stuck in my head, was that that’s the sad part, is that there would be no more work from Oscar Wilde, that there would be no more work from Jimi Hendrix, that there would be no more work from Janis Joplin. And that’s what really turned me around to say, “Well, maybe we better be in a little bit more control here”, because I think that I would be very sad if some 25-year-old lady rock and roll singer in 10 years said, “I wish Stevie Nicks had just thought about it a little more careful and been around to maybe do another, you know, Complete Works of Stevie Nicks, so that I would have it.” And that’s kind of what stopped me and made me really look at the world through clear eyes and say, “I don’t want to be one of the ones that slip away and that people are sad about because they’re no longer with us.” So I made a change.” —Stevie Nicks, 1989
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