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Creativity Quote by Stevie Nicks

"Right now I'm not involved with anybody, but I hope by 75 I will be again"

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There is a particular Stevie Nicks alchemy in the way she turns a plainly personal update into myth-making with a wink. “Right now I’m not involved with anybody” lands like tabloid bait, then she swerves: “but I hope by 75 I will be again.” The punchline isn’t desperation; it’s defiance. She’s rejecting the cultural script that treats older women’s romantic lives as either invisible or embarrassing, and she does it without pleading for permission or performing tragedy.

The intent feels twofold: keep autonomy front and center, and keep the future open. Nicks frames solitude as a current season, not a final verdict. That small temporal shift matters. “Involved” is deliberately unsentimental language, less heart-on-sleeve than a rock ballad, more like someone refusing to let the public audition their private softness. Yet the hope is real, and it’s timed to a milestone age that society often uses as a punchline. She reclaims it as a horizon.

Context is everything: Nicks has spent decades having her relationships, lyrics, and persona braided into one public narrative. This line plays with that expectation while protecting her. It’s also a quietly radical pop-cultural move: insisting that desire and companionship don’t “age out,” even for a woman who has already been cast as an icon, a witch, a legend. The subtext is simple and sharp: I’m still here, still choosing, still becoming.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Nicks, Stevie. (2026, January 16). Right now I'm not involved with anybody, but I hope by 75 I will be again. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/right-now-im-not-involved-with-anybody-but-i-hope-116872/

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Nicks, Stevie. "Right now I'm not involved with anybody, but I hope by 75 I will be again." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/right-now-im-not-involved-with-anybody-but-i-hope-116872/.

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"Right now I'm not involved with anybody, but I hope by 75 I will be again." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/right-now-im-not-involved-with-anybody-but-i-hope-116872/. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.

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Stevie Nicks (born May 26, 1948) is a Musician from USA.

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