Stevie Nicks was on the verge of 71 when she voted for the primary time.
Waiting this lengthy, the Fleetwood Mac alumnus stated Wednesday MSNBCit is one in every of his solely regrets in life. It’s additionally one thing he is talked about overtly throughout his solo live shows over the previous two years, he stated.
This election cycle, Nicks stated, she hopes her followers do not make the identical mistake.
“You can say, ‘Oh, I did not have time,’” he stated, however “in the long term, you did not have an hour? Didn’t you might have an hour of your time to go vote?”
And “if you are going to vote in a single election,” MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski supplied, “let it’s this one.” Nicks agreed.
The two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Famer in an Oct. 24 interview with Rolling Stone expressed his assist for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, aligning himself with the incumbent vice chairman’s pro-abortion place. It’s a problem that is near house, she revealed to the outlet, as she had an abortion within the late ’70s.
Nicks’s being pregnant was an unintended one, she stated, and carrying the being pregnant to time period would have ended her profession as she knew it.
“I’m not the form of girl who would entrust her child to a nanny, not in 1,000,000 years. So we’d drag a child all over the world on tour,” Nicks stated.
“I would not do this to my child. I would not say I solely want 9 months. I’d say I want a few years and that might break up the band, interval,” he continued. “So my choice was to have an abortion.”
As a part of her advocacy for ladies’s reproductive rights, Nicks launched her single “The Lighthouse” in September, which she started writing two years in the past, when Roe vs. Wade was rolled over.
“It appeared like in a single day individuals have been saying ‘what can we, as a collective pressure, do about this,’” Nicks wrote on Instagram on the time of the tune’s launch. “For me, it was writing a tune.”
In the observe she carried out on “SNL” earlier this month, Nicks in contrast herself to a lighthouse, urging girls, “Don’t allow them to take your energy.”
“We are that gentle that goes out and we carry the ships right here so they do not crash,” she instructed Rolling Stone earlier this month, increasing the tune’s metaphor to incorporate her fellow activists. “We save lives every single day. What I take into consideration the following election is that Kamala Harris can also be the lighthouse.”
“The Lighthouse,” Nicks stated Wednesday on MSNBC, is an anthem within the custom of protest songs written by artists like Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell — and, finally, a automobile for political change.
“So I’d say to all my musical poets who write songs,” he stated, “write some songs about what’s taking place, like I did.”
