Rolling Stone Interview

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Stevie's life has had this constant tension between relationship commitment and career (way to state the obvious). I came across this one Rumours-era spread on FM recently on Tumblr where Stevie said when she grows up she sees herself, among other things, raising kids. We know that didn't happen. I think she did want a family and her career both. If you look at the press, the people whom they're asking "How do you manage to have a family and career BOTH" are always women. For men, having both is not remarkable, it's the norm, and I kinda feel like Stevie naively thought she as a woman could have both when she was younger, and throughout her career learned that she could not, not easily anyway. I think she always wanted a harbor to anchor in, but she also wanted her freedom, and she found it hard to find that, though you could probably find relationships in which men enjoyed exactly that (a harbor to come home to when all the adventuring was done for a time). I might project because this is very much a tension I feel personally; I have always been described by many as independent, since I was about 5 years old, but that doesn't mean I like feeling lonely or that I don't need people. Everybody needs somebody sometimes, blah blah blah. Sorry to get confessional, my point is that I think it's possible for Stevie to have just wanted both roots and wings, like a lot of people do. She's kind of unapologetic about her choices in interviews, I see that as her way of owning up to her choices and refusing to hide behind them. As melodramatic as she can get, I also feel like a part of her refuses to become a pure tragedy.

Her self-destructing taste in men , I like the idea that I think WildHearted put forth elsewhere that it's self-sabotaging on purpose on a subconscious level, so that there's a built-in escape clause. That and her melodramatic romantic nature at that age.