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Stevie’s ‘Sara’ bun is, of course, properly known as a Gibson Girl updo. Here’s a few more, to make a pretty quintych.

"I love making up little fantasy things," Stevie says. "All the characters in my songs — the Gypsies, the Saras, and on this album, Alice and Juliet — they’re all me. But they’re all different sides of me. It’s a great way to write about what’s going on in your life without telling it in a real serious way, but the point comes over and I think people understand that."

Expressing a little Stevie & Chris love

“I like phrases that roll off the tongue. I’ll find different way to put things, different ways of phrasing a certain feeling, that goes lyrically and emotionally with the track. I think Lindsey is a bit like that, too. For Stevie, the words are of prime importance; the song moves around the words, rather than the words moving around the song.”

Another one of those raw live photos.

What Stevie Nicks most wants to see when she walks into her [hotel] room, however, is a typewriter. […] “When I see that typewriter when I get in my room, it just makes me go, ‘Wow,’” she explains over the phone from a hotel room in Charlotte, N.C. “If I feel like saying anything tonight, it’s all there, it’s all ready. I light the candles, and I light some incense, and put on some music for whatever mood I’m in, and it’s my time. It’s my special time alone.”

Sitting alone at a typewriter doesn’t seem a particularly romantic image, particularly when compared to the apparent glamour of rock stardom. But as Nicks puts it, “When you love to write as much as I love to write …”

"We didn’t get in until real late last night, until probably about four, and I typed for about three hours," she says. "I was so tired that I would put my head down on the typewriter and almost go to sleep, and then I’d wake back up and I’d type another couple paragraphs."

I don’t really like people knowing everything about me. I like being a mystery, and I even think I’m pretty mysterious to the people who know me really well. There is a part of me that isn’t available to the public, except in my songs.

When I’m writing I really do strive to be totally honest. I never make up a song. They either come right from my journals or straight out of my head because of something that is happening. It’s always been important to me that people think of me as more than just a ‘tune-sayer.’