"When you're rich and famous, you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not to be. I've talked of sacrificing everything for Fleetwood Mac, but I realize now that it is simply the only thing I've ever wanted to do"
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The second sentence sharpens that honesty into something almost ruthless. The old romantic myth of the artist who would "sacrifice everything" for the band gets recast as a softer, more unsettling truth: it wasnt sacrifice if there was never a real alternative. Nicks reframes devotion as clarity. Fleetwood Mac isnt a casualty of her ambition; its the most coherent expression of it. That matters because the bands lore is famously entangled with romance, betrayal, and the high-drama alchemy of turning private wreckage into public anthem. In that ecosystem, claiming the work as the only true desire is also a way of reclaiming agency from the soap opera.
Its an adult statement from a pop icon: intimacy is never purely personal when one person is an institution, and the cleanest honesty is admitting what you were always going to choose.
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Nicks, Stevie. (2026, February 16). When you're rich and famous, you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not to be. I've talked of sacrificing everything for Fleetwood Mac, but I realize now that it is simply the only thing I've ever wanted to do. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/when-youre-rich-and-famous-you-are-the-dominant-159737/
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Nicks, Stevie. "When you're rich and famous, you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not to be. I've talked of sacrificing everything for Fleetwood Mac, but I realize now that it is simply the only thing I've ever wanted to do." FixQuotes. February 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/when-youre-rich-and-famous-you-are-the-dominant-159737/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"When you're rich and famous, you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not to be. I've talked of sacrificing everything for Fleetwood Mac, but I realize now that it is simply the only thing I've ever wanted to do." FixQuotes, 16 Feb. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/when-youre-rich-and-famous-you-are-the-dominant-159737/. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.




