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Telegraph.co.uk
A lot has changed in the music business since Stevie Nicks released her last original work almost a decade ago, but the 62-year-old singer – who doesn't even own a computer – believes that producing quality music with a focus on quality is something that never goes out of style.
"There is no autotuning, nothing is fake about this record. It's all real, we can go onstage and play every one of these songs," she said.
It was Stewart who approached Nicks last year about co-writing songs, a concept she initially found foreign.
"I'm very selfish with my writing, I don't want to share that process with anybody, I like sitting in there and having that suffering thing, with my 50 pages of words taped to the piano, where I'm taking little bits and pieces from 20 poems at once, and that was something that I thought that was the way I wanted it to be," she said.
"I'm very selfish with my writing, I don't want to share that process with anybody, I like sitting in there and having that suffering thing, with my 50 pages of words taped to the piano, where I'm taking little bits and pieces from 20 poems at once, and that was something that I thought that was the way I wanted it to be," she said.
But the singer admits she had an "epiphany" after sitting down with Stewart. "My life changed, the golden doors opened, and I realised and understood why Paul McCartney and John Lennon wrote together," she said. "He knows a thousand chords, I know seven. I have 40 pages of poetry, he doesn't have 40 pages of poetry, so we can bring that to each other".
When it came to recording the album Nicks invited studio staff and performers to her Pacific Palisades home in southern California. Performers were encouraged to lounge around between sessions at the spacious mansion overlooking the ocean, a freeing experience that hearkened back to the Fleetwood Mac days.
"You know, you go into a studio, and its $2300 a day, and you have rules there. When you're here at a house, you can have food, you have the kitchen, you can like hang out. If you don't want to work, you cannot work, so it was a fantastic experience, and I hope that experience made its way onto the tape," Nicks said.
"You know, you go into a studio, and its $2300 a day, and you have rules there. When you're here at a house, you can have food, you have the kitchen, you can like hang out. If you don't want to work, you cannot work, so it was a fantastic experience, and I hope that experience made its way onto the tape," Nicks said.
