she denies any solitary dedication to any one religion, including Wicca, and has spoken about this topic in numerous interviews.[140] Yahoo! interview, April 28, 1998 ("I have no idea what precipitated those rumors ... I am not a witch. Get a life!"). Nicks said, "I spent thousands of dollars on beautiful black clothes and had to stop wearing them for a long time because a lot of people scared me. And that's really unfair to me, I think, for people – other people – to conjure up their ideas of what I am or what I believe in."