Stevie wrote the following tribute to late singer Whitney Houston in the December 21, 2012 issue of Entertainment Weekly:
“I was very much of a fan of her music, and of her as a singer. The first couple of records, where it was more simple, were my favorites. I did meet her once, in a very strange way: I was staying at a Santa Monica hotel called Shutters, and we had two Yorkies with us. We were walking in, and they were coming out, Whitney and Bobby, and they had Yorkies too. So we had this moment where all the Yorkie people were just, like, in love. She knew who I was and I knew who she was, of course, but it wasn’t about that. It was just a really nice, unsophisticated moment. And I liked her very much.
It was hard to watch [her struggle with addiction], and very hard to watch that show [Being Bobby Brown]. I didn’t want that to be her. And it was strange, because when we met that day at Shutters, that really wasn’t who they came off as being. They seemed much more together and happier, and they were both really smiling and laughing.
I saw her do an interview where she basically said, ‘I’d had a thousand number-one hit records, I’d had huge albums, I’d toured the world, I’d met all the most famous people in the world, and I fell in love with this guy,’ and she said, ‘You know what, all I cared about was being in love. All I cared about was my husband. Nothing else mattered.’ If you’ve ever been that deeply in love, where you’re ready to just give everything up, then you can kind of understand that. Especially because she had pretty much topped every pinnacle.
I think if she were still here today and you said to her, ‘Would you change that? If you had met him, would you have said, ‘This isn’t gonna be good for me,’ and would you have walked away from him?’ she would’ve said no. So I think she was very aware of where she was going. And yeah, it’s a tragedy. But I also think sometimes when real big love gets in the way, there’s no turning back.”
Stevie Nicks / Entertainment Weekly / December 21, 2012
