NEW YORK — Friends who want to get in touch with Stevie Nicks know not to send an e-mail or a text message, because she won't respond.

It's not that she's being rude: Nicks doesn't own a computer or a cell phone. The 60-year-old rock legend, who is currently on tour with Fleetwood Mac, is a proud technophobe.

"I believe that computers have taken over the world. I believe that they have in many ways ruined our children. I believe that kids used to love to go out and play," Nicks says. "I believe that social graces are gone because manners are gone because all people do is sit around and text."

Nicks does own an iPod, but she prefers to listen to music — which includes her new CD, "The Soundstage Sessions" — on a boombox.

Q. This is your first live project in 22 years. What took so long?

A. I don't really know exactly how that happened. Before I knew it, it was 2007 ... (my) tour was over, and I'm sitting in my house going, "I can't believe I'm sitting here again, and I didn't film this show." So I got on my phone and I called my managers, and I said, "Make some calls, because I need to film this show."

Q. You say you hope this project is a blueprint for the next generation. Why do you think there's a lack of strong rock acts?

A. Because the music business is in terrible trouble. People are stealing our music. That's all there is to it. In the old days ... they would help you to develop into the artist that they knew you were going to be. In the last 10 years, the record companies don't have the money to do that. I don't know what the answer is to it. The only thing I can say to people is, "Buy music, do not steal music." If you do, you won't have any new music later on.