My other family is Fleetwood Mac. I don’t need the money, but there’s an emotional need for me to go on the road again. There’s a love there we’re a band of brothers.

Stevie Nicks frames Fleetwood Mac not as a mere professional affiliation but as a chosen family—an emotional home that persists beyond financial necessity. By stressing that she “doesn’t need the money,” she rejects the cynical assumption that reunions and tours are primarily commercial, instead presenting performance as a form of belonging and renewal. The phrase “emotional need” suggests that touring answers a psychological or spiritual call: connection with bandmates, the shared history of making music, and the communal energy of audiences. Calling the group “a band of brothers” emphasizes loyalty and hard-won solidarity, implying that conflict and survival have forged a bond akin to kinship.