Egos may be present in anybody. High class, mid class, city people, town people, country people, anywhere. I've seen it. And another factor was what Christine said in 1997 about the time they broke up (C&J): we actually didn’t talk at all. Stevie and Lindsey didn’t get along very well either, but they used to fight… …specially when they were writing songs together… John and I did not write songs together, and we did not talk. Period.
Mick included a good example of what would be the seeds of the endless resentment and fighting between those two:
Suppose Lindsey wasn't playing well on a particular song or something," she (SN) said. "As his girlfriend, I should be a comfort to him, right? You know: 'Who cares about it? You're great anyway!' I mean, that's what old ladies do for their men, right? But I couldn't, because I was also frustrated and saying, 'Look, if you could just get your guitar part tight, we could put the vocal on.' I'd be pissed off at him too. There was no way we could get any comfort from each other about what went on in the band. There was no love, because everybody was too nervous. And while we were traveling all the time, none of us had other friends to talk to...."
And yes the I wanna be a star was another spicy condiment, too.
Stevie has also said that the relationship between her and Lindsey was already a bit rocky when they joined the band. As Stevie started to express herself more, as she became a star, things didn't get any better.
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