Stevie Nicks Says Fleetwood Mac 'Can't Go Any Further' Without Late Christine McVie: 'You Can't Replace Her'

McVie died in November at age 79. At the time, Nicks revealed she had learned of McVie's then-undisclosed sickness a few nights before her death

Fleetwood Mac won't be the same without Christine McVie.

Months after the death of McVie in November, Stevie Nicks revealed her thoughts on a Fleetwood Mac reunion.

"When Christine died, I felt like you can’t replace her. You just can’t. Without her, what is it? You know what I mean?" Nicks, 75, told Vulture in an interview Tuesday. "She was like my soul mate, my musical soul mate, and my best friend that I spent more time with than any of my other best friends outside of Fleetwood Mac."

"Christine was my best friend. When I think about Taylor Swift’s song 'You’re on Your Own, Kid' and the line 'you always have been,' it was like, that was Christine and I. We were on our own in that band. We always were. We protected each other."

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She concludes, "Who am I going to look over to on the right and have them not be there behind that Hammond organ? When she died, I figured we really can’t go any further with this. There’s no reason to."

The "Edge of Seventeen" singer went on to explain that McVie was "the pop star" of the group — something that can't be replicated.

"She wrote all those really super pop hits. None of the rest of us could write those songs. What would happen is we’d have to take the songs out, like we did when she actually retired for 18 years. We couldn’t re-create those songs. So we became a much more hard-rock band," she said.

The singer-songwriter and keyboardist died at age 79 on Nov. 30. McVie's family announced her death on social media, writing at the time that she died at the hospital "following a short illness," surrounded by her family. Months later, a death certificate revealed that she died of a stroke, with a secondary cause of death listed as cancer.

Nicks opened up about the grieving process for her best friend during a concert in Atlanta in May.

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“Thank you to Taylor Swift for doing a favor for me, and that is, writing a song called 'You're on Your Own, Kid,'" Nicks said to the audience at State Farm Arena, according to a video shared to social media. "That is the sadness of how I feel."

She described their friendship as one that could withstand periods of time without contact. "Even on the other side of the world, we didn't have to talk on the phone. We really weren't, you know, phone buddies," said Nicks. "We'd go back to Fleetwood Mac, and we'd walk in and just be like, 'Little sister, how are you?' It was like never a minute had passed. Never an argument in our entire 47 years — never."

The musician then referenced the song as she continued, "When it was the two of us, the two of us were on our own, kids. We always were, and now, I'm having learn to be on my own, kid, by myself. You helped me do that. Thank you."

In her shows since, Nicks has paid tribute to McView during "Landslide," with a slideshow of photos of the late star appearing behind Nicks as she sings.

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