Nicks: "I don’t agree with anything anybody says."

Nicks: "Instead of going in the direction that a lot of the women singers are going in revealing, I'll be very, very sexy under 18 pounds of chiffon and lace and velvet... I will have mystique."

Nicks: "Little girls think it's necessary to put all their business on MySpace and Facebook, and I think it's a shame... I'm all about mystery."

Nicks: "I've never been to a strip club but I turn on MTV and see in every single video what it must look like... If you have to work so hard at appearing sexy, then perhaps you weren't that sexy after all, perhaps your music has no sensuality, perhaps your music is dull, indeed, that you have no choice but to pelvic thrust your way through a pop video in a leather bikini in order to detract from its mediocrity... it might be advisable to do something else."

Nicks: "Most women would not be happy being me. People say, 'But you're alone.' But I don't feel alone. I feel very un-alone."

Nicks: "Even in my really bad, drugged-out days, I didn't go away. I still toured, still did interviews. I never gave up the fight. That's why I'm who I am today, because I didn't leave. And I think I made the right choice."

Nicks: "By the time I was five, I was a little diva."

Nicks: "I think they all went too far. Their jeans got too low, their tops got too see-through. Personally, I think that sexy is keeping yourself mysterious. I'm really an old-fashioned girl, and I think I'm totally sexy."

Nicks: "If you want to find somebody and you want to be married and you want to have children, don't make it a rock star."

Nicks: "I'm going to spend my life writing poems, turning them into music that will affect people and touch their hearts. I'm going to write the songs that people can't write for themselves."

Nicks: "I was not going to be a stupid girl singer. I was going to be way more than that."

Nicks: "It was hard when you practice that hard and you sound that good and everybody tells you that you should be doing something else... You want to say, 'Obviously we're not from the same planet'...Lindsey and I just couldn't understand how we could sing a beautiful song and nobody liked it. It was like, 'We don't belong here, nobody understands us.'"

Nicks: "I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well; I'm not a good terrified person."

Nicks: "Your graciousness is what carries you. It isn't how old you are, how beautiful you are, or how short your skirt is. What it is, is what comes out of your heart. If you are gracious, you have won the game."

Nicks: "I do not walk away in the face of adversity and never have."

Nicks: "I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mic and sing."

Nicks: "If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?"

Nicks: "You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility."

Nicks: "Singing is the love of my life, but I was ready to give it all up because I couldn't handle people talking about how fat I was."

Nicks: "I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer."

Nicks: "I don't really like to be filmed."

Nicks: "I'm doing lots of interviews and stuff. I'm longing for the days of getting up, not having to put on makeup and do my hair and just going to the studio."

Nicks: "Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings."

Nicks: "When you're rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not to be. I've talked of sacrificing everything for Fleetwood Mac, but I realize now that it is simply the only thing I've ever wanted to do."

Nicks: "I didn't want to look like anyone else - like Janis Joplin or Grace Slick. That's why I never went to any of the big designers."

Nicks: "I'm very proud that a woman, has finally been chosen as a candidate for the president of the United States, because I always felt women should be treated like first-class citizens."

Nicks: "Prince and I were just friends. I think he would have been happy to have had a relationship."

Nicks: "But for me, I knew that if I had a baby, I would have to take care of that baby, and I wouldn't have been happy with a nanny taking care of my baby and walking into the room and having my child run across the room to another woman."