Stevie Q&A on the Nicks Fix

[cliffdweller]

Originally Posted by dissention

Q: Long Way To Go is one of my favorites, Stevie. What were you trying to convey in that song?

A: I had to go a long distance.

[AliceLover]

I really dont think its her answering these questions. Any regular fan could answer the majority of the questions and i can answer mostly all of them. Pretty sad but true.

Jimmy

Originally Posted by AliceLover

I really dont think its her answering these questions. Any regular fan could answer the majority of the questions and i can answer mostly all of them. Pretty sad but true.

Jimmy

so....the cat's out of the bag? YOU'RE Stevie in the Q&A? I hope your gettin paid!

[GateandGarden]

Originally Posted by AliceLover

I really dont think its her answering these questions. Any regular fan could answer the majority of the questions and i can answer mostly all of them. Pretty sad but true.

Jimmy

I also suspect that's the case.

Hillary

[GateandGarden]

This is my favorite.

Q: Why is Doing the Best I Can subtitled "Escape from Berlin?"

Stevie's answer:

The musical part of the song is kind of scary and it reminded me of having to escape from somewhere.

What the hell? How lame.

Ummmm...I love you, Stevie.

Hillary

[ShangriLaTroubl]

Originally Posted by SpyNote

I'd imagine that she hand writes quick answers on paper and then faxes them back to John. I doubt she uses email, though she is one of the few people in the world who still uses a typewriter

The other theory is that there is a "ghost writer," like Stevie's assistant, answering the questions. That might explain why the responses occasionally seem impersonal.

The few he posted in the beginning were handwritten, he posted pics of the notes she sent in..so that is probably what she does. Although according to Christine she emails Stevie frequently, and according to John Kinney Karen answers Stevie's emails for her, and relays messages so...yeah she probably faxes her responses.

Chris

[dissention]

Originally Posted by GateandGarden

This is my favorite.

Q: Why is Doing the Best I Can subtitled "Escape from Berlin?"

Stevie's answer:

The musical part of the song is kind of scary and it reminded me of having to escape from somewhere.

What the hell? How lame.

Ummmm...I love you, Stevie.

Hillary

I never saw that one. Mucho gracias for the hearty laugh, though.

[amber]

Originally Posted by dissention

I never saw that one. Mucho gracias for the hearty laugh, though.

I think she just thinks up image words that she likes that give a visual of how she feels, then sort of strings them together. Like painting a vague emotional picture. With very little actual narrative content. Some of her lyrics are better than that, some worse, but that's about the median. I personally like it, I kind of think about my emotions that way, too - and I don't want some big plot to follow, or some giant message to think about I'm not reading the news, after all So, really, when she answers "it reminds me of having to escape from somewhere" that's probably really the extent of her feeling right then...she felt she needed to escape...it's probably not much more complex than that. And she probably had some picture in her mind of bleak east berlin, and blah....
AMber

[blinker12]

Originally Posted by SpyNote

I'd imagine that she hand writes quick answers on paper and then faxes them back to John. I doubt she uses email, though she is one of the few people in the world who still uses a typewriter

The other theory is that there is a "ghost writer," like Stevie's assistant, answering the questions. That might explain why the responses occasionally seem impersonal.

Well, Christine mentioned in a recent interview that she and Stevie e-mail each other sometimes, which is kind of adorable. So apparently she does do e-mail.
But yeah, the tone of her Q&A answers seems distant to me too. I would suspect what happens is that John e-mails her assistant the questions, then the assistant reads them aloud to Stevie and jots down some quick responses, then sends those back.

[EveryHour]

Originally Posted by dissention

Out of all questions submitted, why in holy hell would she decide to answer this? Her blonde dye must be seeping through her scalp and into her brain.

Maybe John Kinney and Stevie figured it was submitted by a kid. I hope to god it was.....

[EveryHour]

Originally Posted by SpyNote

The other theory is that there is a "ghost writer," like Stevie's assistant, answering the questions. That might explain why the responses occasionally seem impersonal.

I would hate to think that, though it's certainly a possibility. Yes, the answers are brief (LB is an absolute gem when it comes to answering that Q&A stuff, isn't he?!), but stop and think how busy Stevie is and that there were probably 1,567,328 questions submitted and she is maybe thinking she would like to get through them all someday. True, I am sometimes disappointed in the answers, but I'll take that over nothing. I think too that when it comes to questions about lyrics, it can be hard to convey in words because it invlved such strong feelings or that it is felt the lyrics should stand on their own.

[Serrart]

Originally Posted by blinker12

But yeah, the tone of her Q&A answers seems distant to me too. I would suspect what happens is that John e-mails her assistant the questions, then the assistant reads them aloud to Stevie and jots down some quick responses, then sends those back.

I agree, maybe the assistant or whoever he/she is gives us an unrequested summary of Stevie's answers. She definitely wasn't that telegraphic in her beautiful "thank you letter" for the birthday wishes.

Romy