Bella Donna Stevie

“Once in a million years a lady like her rises…" 

 Happy birthday, Stevie!

Happy birthday, Stevie! 

 “I came here for a reason. I didn’t come here to be a mother. I didn’t come here to be a nun. And I did not come here to be a cleaning lady. I came here to be a poet.”

“I danced around as Isadora Duncan at four years old. And my parents said ‘What are we gonna do?’ I’d pay my brother 50 cents a week, just to dance with me, just because I loved to dance so much. I didn’t want to go to ballet school every day, and study, and kill myself either; because I knew I couldn’t bluff my way through, say Russian ballet. So I had to figure out another way to do something wonderful without working at it. So as a real little girl I started singing along with the Beach Boys, learning all the words… Working out my routine, sort of, and that’s not easy when the mirror starts at right where your chest starts, and you’re trying to work out the whole stage show, but that’s what I did.” 

Fleetwood Mac Live, 1975 

“My wonderful fans, my little, teeny, tiny 10-year-old fans and my big, grown-up 45-year-old fans always wrote and said, ‘We love your songs,’ and they’d make me feel good. It’s the peer support that I had to work real hard for. But then I would walk out on stage and all those people would smile and they’d know the words and it would be alright.”

“Listen to the lyrics. Doesn’t it just penetrate your soul and tell the truth about everything you’ve ever felt in your whole life?“ 

 Rhiannon | Rumours Tour, 1978 

“Intense silence As she walked in the room Her black robes trailing Sister of the moon”