Stevie Nicks Acceptance Speech at the 2019 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

thank you so I'm wondering if you're actually in my ear monitors but I don't think you are so I'll undo them what I what I would like to say is that this is this speech thing that I was supposed to give now has been has been following me down until the sound of its voice will haunt me for the last two weeks it's not hard for me to go and play for you but it's very hard for me to try to tell you how how I thank you for for this for this being the first girl in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice sometimes I just can tell great stories because it's like it's easy if I if I'm telling a story about prints I can say he picked me up in his purple Camaro and we went out to his purple house in a suburb outside of Minneapolis and nobody know where I was and we wrote a song and he called it they'll take her it'll take you days to find her and I can actually tell you a great story about that because it is what it is but for me to tell you a story from my heart about what this means to me is very hard because this has never happened to me before and I'm hoping that since it's never happened to me and now only one it's 22 men in 4-0 women and now one woman that what I am doing is opening up the door for other women to go like hey man I can do it and I'm telling all my friends I like the girls in hime I'm going okay guys you got a really get it together now and like what he needs to step away and don't break up your band just do an album so you have it cuz it's gonna take 20 years before you will be recognized as again so you'll already be like 60 so you have to do it right now so it's like this is the problem of getting in I was I I started belladonna in nineteen really thinking about it in 1979 so I'd only been with Fleetwood Mac for not quite four years really only like maybe more like three and a half years and so this is a hard thing to do because you have to it the times are different and it's like I don't it's gonna be hard but I know there's somebody out there that will be able to do it because I'm gonna give you all the directions and I'll do enough interviews that say exactly what to do and I want to tell you that everybody in my life gave me ideas of what I could say to you like this is from and I have to just say this cuz I don't have my glasses on Cameron read it but I've read it so many times in the middle of the night crying going like I don't have a idea what I must say up there and this morning at 4:30 my assistant came in and I'm laying there and my little Chinese Crested is like laying she lays right on my stomach and she's looking at me like it's so late and I said and she goes talk are you done and I'm going no I can't do it I have to go to bed I I don't know what I'm gonna say I'm just gonna have to go out there and go like you know what six minutes is not very long so let me move right on and six minutes for me I majored in speech communication at San Jose State and psychology five years five and the second I called my mom and said I have to put because me and Lindsey have to move to LA because the music is in San Francisco but the record deals are in Elle and we have to go tomorrow and my mom said okay that's fine but we will be withdrawing all financial support as of this minute and I said flat out I know Mom I know and I'm up to the challenge three waitress jobs two cleaning lady jobs it was cool then he worked on the music I worked on food and dirty houses and I rather enjoyed it because I could get out of the house and go into the real world instead of just being in the cave with all the guys who were just laying around smoking pot and messing up my house so it's like I go excuse me excuse me can I just step over your feet and your pot and everything so I can straighten this place up and I don't get paid for doing this at my own house but I will do it for you because I know you guys work hard so that's a little bit of a moment of how we got before Fleetwood Mac okay so you don't want to tell you that this solo album thing I started thinking about this and I only know this because my friend Paul Fishkin in 1976 who then became my boyfriend after we went to this convention at the Acapulco princess which I like to call the tequila convention because the first night everybody had the little necklaces you one of you here may have been there the little necklaces across around your your neck and they come and they fill it with tequila and who's gonna waste Aquila so it's like so everybody was so drunk that nobody surfaced for three solid days and then it was over so everybody just went to the airport left but not me I stayed I stayed because I'm going like I'm already down here somebody else paid for it so I'm gonna enjoy this vacation so Paul and me I said to him after playing rumors which was not even finished but still really cool the night before I didn't ever hear it because I passed out as soon as I push play but some people must have heard it because they spoke about it later so I said no no it's new songs it's other songs it's you know more demos and he goes like okay so we go on the beach and I play on probably 15 or 20 songs and he goes Wow that's a lot of song okay and he's a record man right so we go back to their lay in New York we start going out and I find out because Paul tells me that a year later when I said to him like and I'm going like it's a secret and he's he's like I think so I think if you're kind and loving and you tell them that you will always put them first and they will always be at the top of your priority list they will understand and they will stay go do what you want to do and have fun we'll see in a year and a half so that's what we eventually did and yes my amazing band is still together and very strong today so last but not least which probably won't be last but not least they can't get me off this stage now that I'm on it I want to thank first of all very quickly Paul Fishkin because he is was the wise man who said you can do both and you can you can't have both you just have to do it with love that's all then I was introduced to his partner Danny Goldberg who became Paul's in mind our group guru and our calm coach who kept us calm I was gone all the time so they were like talking about this and tried to put it together calmly and serenely and so I'm I'm off in the world doing rumors and tusks and they're working behind the scenes to see if they can make this happen and then it happened we formed a record deal I mean a record company called modern we went to mr. Doug Morris at Atlantic my hero and I said so Doug and it's me so Doug what I want to do is I want to make a Tom Petty album straight-up rock and roll and I have two great girl singers Laurie and Sharon that are amazing and we're gonna be crosby Stills and Nash I'm gonna be Stills and they're gonna be Nash and Crosby so we're going to be straight-up rock and roll but we're gonna sound like crosby Stills and Nash and Doug's like fan-fucking-tastic sorry didn't mean to swear but so then I said so who so who produced uh who produces Tom Petty he goes Jimmy Iovine and I'm going like so can you set me up with Jimmy Iovine and he goes yeah I can so he says I'll give him a call so it calls Jimmy and he sets us up to go and have dinner so we gonna have dinner and I tell him the same thing Tom Petty straight up rock album but we want to sound like crosby Stills and Nash and he goes like okay I can do it I haven't done a girl album in a while so we go okay good we both went back to LA because he was there working on Tom's finishing Tom's record so we get there ten days later I moved in with Jimmy it's just how it was so I moved in with Jimmy I learned to make tiny Pizza tiny pizzas and waited for him to finish the album Tom's album meanwhile me and Laurie and Sharon are practicing all our three-part harmonies which Jimmy and nobody else really wanted to hear so we were gonna be damned if we weren't going to be on that album being crosby Stills and Nash so we got so good during that next six weeks that when he was done and we started belladonna we were ready so we walked in and we made an album in three months which is unheard of especially in those days we were focused we were we were together we were organized and we made a great album and then Jimmy came to me and said we have a problem Stevie we made a great album but you don't have a single and I'm like seriously we don't have a single and you didn't tell me until now and he goes well I thought it would work out I thought one would come to my head and it didn't and so but I have a plan Tom Petty says you can have stop draggin my heart around it's already recorded he'll sing it with you and problem solved and I finally got to meet Tom Petty who Jimmy had kept me a secret from because he didn't want time to get pissed off and think that his like his his uh his attention was going to be taken away because he had a new girlfriend so I like hid in the basement it was fine I got to hear everything and Eve drop all through it so anyway Jimmy dug Paul Danny also Irving Azoff because I had to hire him in 1976 because my mother said you better get some help here because you don't have anybody taking care of your money so I hired Irving who gladly said sure not having any idea that he would still be sitting here tonight going like Cheryl my press agent this Rosenberg who I met in 1976 who is still present press agent in for me and she's the best she's the the Rona Barrett of today and I adore her and she's elegant and incredible so talk to her if you can she'll get you in a newspaper and then there was Howard Kaufman who passed away a little while ago who then became my manager when Irving had to go become the president of a record company and that was okay because we all have to branch out and let's see and Cheryl who went Howard passed away then took on the mantle of being my manager which is no easy thing because I don't agree with anything anybody said especially when it's a girl but thank you Cheryl for giving it your all anyway you have been a fantastic fantastic audience and I want to tell you if you ever need a keynote speaker somebody to talk to someone to talk to a group of people I am your girl I love you more than you'll ever know thank you so much for being so awesome you

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Length: 12min 16sec (736 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 24 2020