Stevie Nicks can’t wait to perform live for an audience again after the coronavirus pandemic is over.

“Time is being stolen from all of us,” the 72 year-old Fleetwood Mac singer told “CBS Sunday Morning.” “Absolutely. Especially if you’re 72 years old.”

This has been difficult for Nicks to deal with, as she has performed live many times during her career.

“When you’re really working, you really stay young. You stay young because you have to,” she said. “But, when you’re just sitting around in your house, I think that Old Man Time starts to get ahold of you.”

Nicks holds the distinction of being the only woman to have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice: once for her work as a solo singer and once for her work with Fleetwood Mac.

“It’s 22 men that are in twice for their solo work and being in a big band,” the “Edge Of Seventeen” singer said. “And no women.”

Nicks is still proud of this accomplishment, however, and she said that she feels she “definitely broke a big rock ‘n roll glass ceiling.”

Like many artists, Nicks came from humble beginnings, and she once had to clean houses to support herself in her early days trying to make it in music. Despite these struggles early on, Nicks said she’s never regretted pursuing a career in music.

“… I was doing that to support my music, my music pal, Lindsey [Buckingham] and some other friends, too, you know, that didn’t have hardly anything,” she recounted. “So I was the one who actually was able to pay the rent and pay the money to keep our Toyota running. And so it’s like, I didn’t mind at all, because I did not expect my boyfriend, Lindsey, to get a job. Because what in the world would he do?”

“It was all about me,” she added.

This comes as Fleetwood Mac is having a renaissance of sorts, with their classic album “Rumours” and the song “Dreams” re-entering mainstream charts. This newfound interest in the band is due in large part to a viral TikTok featuring a man skateboarding while listening to “Dreams” and enjoying Ocean Spray juice straight from the bottle.

I don’t use this verbiage often but this is a whole vibe. simple as that pic.twitter.com/NfdLsgLkxu

— DrewFrog (@DrewFrogger) September 25, 2020

“This TikTok thing has, kind of, blown my mind and I’m happy about it because it seems to have made so many people happy,” said Nicks.

In the end, music has brought Nicks great happiness over the years.

“When I’m 90 years old, I don’t wanna be laying in my big, gorgeous bedroom  with music playing and 15 little Chinese crested dogs and going like, ‘Ugh, I’m so broken-hearted that I didn’t find the one,'” she said. “And then I would have to answer myself and say, ‘Yes, but you did find several ‘the ones’ who you wrote really great songs about and that’s why you’re living in this absolutely spectacular house with everything that you want and anything that you could possibly wanna buy.'”

“And the way it’s supposed to be.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wtsfT1UwaA

This piece originally appeared in UpliftingToday.com and is used by permission.

Read more at UpliftingToday.com:
Gwen Stefani And Blake Shelton Reportedly ‘Struggling’ As She Admits He’s ‘Back In Oklahoma’ Without Her
Kim Jong Un Breaks Down In Tears As He Warns North Korea Will Mobilize Nuclear Force If Threatened
Scott Peterson’s Murder Conviction For Killing His Pregnant Wife Laci May Be Overturned As Court Orders It To Be Reexamined

The opinions expressed by contributors and/or content partners are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Steve Gruber.