Stevie Nicks Jokingly Predicts She'll Live to Be 'Hatefully 95': 'Not Looking Forward to That'

Stevie Nicks shows no signs of slowing down – whether she likes it or not.

In a candid discussion of mortality with Rolling Stonethe legendary singer and songwriter, 76, predicted she had two decades left to live and revealed she was “not afraid of dying”.

“I will probably live to be a hateful 95 years old,” she joked. “I don’t want to be that old, honestly. I mean, I’m going to have an electric scooter and I’m going to rage and keep dancing.”

Although she’s been busier than ever in recent months, Nicks said she’s “not looking forward to it” when it comes to getting older, noting that her mother Barbara died at 84 and her father Jess at 80.

Stevie Nicks performs at BottleRock in Napa 2024.

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“I think that’s too old … but I’m a younger person at 76 than they were at 76,” she said. “So I figured 88, 89.”

While the Fleetwood Mac star said she is “not afraid of dying”, she explained that she is worried her busy schedule will prevent her from “getting it all sorted”. She recently appeared as a musical guest on Saturday night livewhere she performed her new pro-choice anthem “The Lighthouse,” and spent the past year touring stadiums with Billy Joel.

“That’s why I’m so glad this tour is over, so I can go work on the album,” she said. “I haven’t been able to do a lot of the creative things that I love for many, many years. I draw, write songs and write poetry. I would like to make a perfume because I actually have a scent that I like.”

Nicks, who released her eighth solo studio album in 2014, said she has no plans to retire anytime soon but will do so when she feels it is “age-inappropriate” to continue.

Until then, she would like to continue touring, but in a slightly different way than the arenas and stadiums she is used to.

Fleetwood Mac 1975 (LR John McVie, Christine McVie, Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood and Lindsey Buckingham).

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“Well, if I can stay pretty good… When I think it’s age-inappropriate, I won’t do it again,” he says. “But then I think I would simply reduce emissions. I would love to visit all the beautiful Gothic theaters in the United States and Europe, do two hours and be able to sit in a chair for some of it. Do some songs from my whole catalog that I’ve always wanted to do and never did.”

If he does tour again, it won’t be with Fleetwood Mac. Nicks, the first woman to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame twice, said Rolling Stone she considers the iconic band “dead” after the loss of Christina McVie in 2022.

Nicks recently opened up to PEOPLE about her SNL performance, calling it “the greatest thing you can do.”

“If you want to talk about being nervous about something!” she said in an email interview. “It doesn’t matter how much you’ve performed or how much you practice, you’re going to be nervous!”

Still, she said she’s “really excited” to play “The Lighthouse.”

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