With Stevie, it's just the opposite. In the interview experience, she gives and gives. You think of Janis Joplin or Jimi Hendrix on stage, just sweating it out, pouring out their souls not because they're on hand and it's the calculated moment, but because they just can't turn it off. It's this kind of super-personal, super-fertile soul stuff that her fans respond to, that makes them crazed and obsessive.

Unfortunately, magazines being what they are these days tend to go for the short and snappy. And, so while Stevie interviews have been recently published in Details, Rolling Stone, and (my story for) Allure, they've been limited to a single page q & a. As if the Stevie Nicks interview was a very rich dessert best served up small slices.

What winds up on the editing floor, among other things, is that critical moment in the interview we'll call Stevie Bonding, in which the woman shares with you in the way her songs suggest she would if she was your next-door neighbor stopping by for a cup of coffee. After the experience of Stevie Bonding, you understand the obsessive Stevie Nicks fans. You laugh no more. You call Jackie 60 and inquire about the next Night of A Thousand Stevies.