Men are going to go out on the road and they’re going to find other women. So if you really want to save yourself a whole lot of heartache, do not fall in love with somebody in a band. Just don’t.

Nicks frames the touring life as a built-in stress test for intimacy: constant travel, adulation, and proximity to temptation make fidelity precarious, especially for musicians with access and opportunity. Her blunt counsel—“don’t fall in love with somebody in a band”—reads less as moral judgment than as hard-earned risk assessment, likely shaped by her own experiences navigating romance within the high-pressure ecosystem of rock stardom. The quote also gestures toward a broader theme in popular-music memoir and interview culture: the road as a space where ordinary relationship norms erode, and where emotional self-protection can require refusing certain kinds of attachments altogether.