CHRISTINE: "Stevie and I are two very different women, but somehow we jell. She is kinda like the sister that I never had. I guess you could say we have grown to love each other."
STEVIE: "She used to call me the 'Mad Songwriter.' Chris sits up all night and writes, she's so inspired."
STEVIE: "I was like Christine's baby sister. She'd never had a little sister before. In the beginning it was truly just Chris and me. No wardrobe mistresses, no make-up artists, no hairdressers, no nobody. It was just me and her. Lots of times we even shared a room. So we got to know each other real quickly and became good friends because we didn't have anybody else."
CHRISTINE: "Stevie's a show woman and she loves it. I'm the keyboard player, which keeps me out of the limelight. I enjoy it because I'm not an extrovert. Nobody contrived for Stevie to be a foxy chick. It just emerged. She moves and dances purely because she likes dancing. But she has a split personality. Onstage she's the goddess of whatever, but offstage she's very often lke a little old lady with a cold or a sore throat. Yet she's amazing ~ she can feel like shit before she goes onstage but then she goes out there and pulls out all the stops."
STEVIE: "I was aware of a band called Fleetwood Mac that had a lady singer in it named Christine McVie, except I always thought her name - everybody always referred to her as Christy, right, Christy McVie. So…I didn’t know her name was Christine, but I was aware that there - there was this rock and roll band with a girl singer…in it, and I was very interested in that, due to the fact that there just really weren’t that many bands with women singers that were...up front, you know. I was very aware that they didn’t need another girl...especially another girl that was not behind a piano, and that was going to stand right out front in the middle. And I mean, I understood that, I mean it was like, if I had been Christine, I would have said, ‘Well I’m not too crazy about that idea myself, actually, but…you know, I’ve been in this band for a hundred years and…so there’s this little, you know, twenty-seven year old girl that’s gonna walk - come walking out - and…be the lead singer, basically, because that’s where she stands...and but Christine is a very, mature and very unjealous person…and so…if she ever did feel any jealousy, she never let me know it."
CHRISTINE: "Mick and John said to me 'If you don't like the girl then we can't have either of them, because they are a duo.' The last thing I was thinking about at that point was to have another girl be in the band. I had been so used to being the only girl! We met them both. We all got on really well together. Stevie was a bright, very humorous, very direct, tough little thing. I liked her instantly."
CHRISTINE: "All we had was each other, really. We certainly weren't getting on with our respective husbands or boyfriends."
STEVIE: "You never want to say it's better without her because, of course, it's not better without her. She is my best friend. From the day I joined Fleetwood Mac, she has been there and all of a sudden, she's gone. So that has not been good for me. There is a feminine power that I really miss."
The Courier-Mail, September 2003
STEVIE: "They made me feel wonderful. I fell madly in love with all of them immediately, and even though I knew in my heart that they didn't really need me, I would try to be really good and maybe I would find a way to be needed there. I didn't know what else to do. I liked them all so much that I was willing to realize that logically I was lucky to get asked to join the band at all, so I would have to be so helpful in everything, right? At least I could be a secretary or something, anything, because I wanted to be part of it. And they knew it. They understood I felt this way. And they were real careful and never made me feel unwanted. Christine very willingly gave me the stage, which I thought was very cool of a woman to say, 'Oh she's five years younger than me, and I've worked for 10 years on the road, killed myself, and her she is, our new frontwoman!' It was incredibly big of Christine to just move out of the way--because I do tend to kind of animate around. I drive Chris nuts. Crazy! Chris will tell you that there were times in the last six or seven years when she was a little jealous. And I swear to God I never knew. She never let me know. Never one comment to the effect of 'I could really have done without you.' And I'm sure there were times when I'm flying around the stage in my gossamer chiffon where she had to think to herself, 'Wow, what's this? Fairy school?' And never once did she make me feel like that. Because she knew from the beginning that I was real sensitive and that I love her so much that anything she'd say to me would cut like a knife. So she was always very careful. Fleetwood Mac couldn't go onstage without me or Chris. We've fought hard to be anything but background singers. I think we would rather quit and do something else than be a background singer."
Creem, 1982
