Stevie Nicks was on the verge of 71 when he cast his first vote.
Waiting so long, Fleetwood Mac alum said Wednesday MSNBCIt's one of his only regrets in life. It's also something he's talked openly about in his solo concerts over the past two years, he said.
This election cycle, Nicks said, he hopes his fans don't make the same mistake.
“You can say, 'Oh, I didn't have time,'” he said, but “in the long run, didn't you have an hour? Didn't you have an hour of your time to go vote?
And “if you're going to vote in an election,” said MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski, “let it be this one.” Nicks agreed.
The two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Famer inducted in an Oct. 24 interview with rolling stone expressed support for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, aligning herself with the sitting vice president's pro-abortion stance. It's a topic close to her, she revealed to the outlet, as she had her own abortion in the late 1970s.
Nicks' pregnancy was a fluke, she said, and carrying it to term would have ended her career as she knew it.
“I'm not the kind of woman who would hand my baby over to a babysitter, 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 only need nine months. I would say I need a couple of years, and that would break up the band, period,” he continued. “So my decision was to abort.”
As part of her advocacy for women's reproductive rights, Nicks released her single “The Lighthouse” in September, which she began writing two years ago when Roe v. Wade was overturned. Wade.
“It seemed like overnight people were saying 'what can we, as a collective force, do about this?'” Nicks wrote in instagram after the release of the song. “For me, it was writing a song.”
On the track where he performed. “SNL” Earlier this month, Nicks compared herself to a lighthouse and urged women to: “Don't let them take your power away.”
“We are that light that goes out and we bring the ships back so they don't crash,” she told Rolling Stone earlier this month, expanding the song's metaphor to include her fellow activists. “We save lives every day. “What I feel about this upcoming election is that Kamala Harris is the lighthouse too.”
“The Lighthouse,” Nicks said Wednesday on MSNBC, is an anthem in the tradition of protest songs written by artists like Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell and, ultimately, a vehicle for political change.
“So I would say to all my musical poets who write songs,” he said, “write some songs about what's going on, like I did.”
