Stevie Nicks was about to turn 71 when she voted for the first time.
By waiting this long, the Fleetwood Mac alum said Wednesday MSNBCis one of his only regrets in life. It’s also a topic she’s spoken about openly during her solo concerts over the past two years, she said.
This election cycle, Nicks said, she hopes her fans don’t make the same mistake.
“You can say, ‘Oh, I didn’t have time,'” she said, but “in the long run, you didn’t have an hour?” You didn’t have an hour of your time to go vote?
And “if you’re going to vote in any election,” added MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski, “let it be this one.” Nicks agreed.
The two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member in an Oct. 24 interview with rolling stone has expressed support for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, aligning with the sitting vice president’s pro-abortion stance. It’s an issue close to her heart, she revealed to the outlet, since she underwent her own abortion in the late 1970s.
Nicks’ pregnancy was a chance pregnancy, she said, and carrying it to term would have ended her career as she knew it.
“I’m not the type of woman who would leave her baby in the care of a nanny, not in a million years. So we would be dragging a baby around the world on tour,” Nicks said.
“I wouldn’t do that to my baby. I wouldn’t say I just need nine months. I would say I need a few years, and that would break up the group, period,” she continued. “So my decision was to abort.”
As part of her advocacy for women’s reproductive rights, Nicks in September released her single “The Lighthouse,” which she began writing two years ago — when Roe vs. Wade was canceled.
“It seemed like overnight people were asking ‘what can we, as a collective force, do about this,'” Nicks wrote on Instagram when the song was released. “For me, it was writing a song.”
In the song she played on “SNL” Earlier this month, Nicks likened herself to a beacon, urging women: “Don’t let them take your power.” »
“We are that light that goes out and we bring back the ships so they don’t crash,” she told Rolling Stone earlier this month, expanding the song’s metaphor to include its fellow activists. “We save lives every day. What I feel about this upcoming election is that Kamala Harris is also the guiding light.
“The Lighthouse,” Nicks said Wednesday on MSNBC, is an anthem in the tradition of protest songs written by artists such as Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell — and, ultimately, a vehicle for political change.
“So I would say to all my musician poets who write songs,” she said, “write songs about what’s happening, like I did.”
