Courtney Love Quotes

I'm covered with loser dust.

I wanted my anger to be valid, and the only way to do that is to be fairly attractive.

There are ten commandments, I've only broken three.

If you treat a girl like a dog, she is going to piss on you.

I am not suicidal. Occasionally, like all of us, I get depressed and it was over a year ago and I had a little mini attack, well a big one ... I don't know quite why it happened but I find medication is not the answer to this.

I am not a woman. I am a force of nature ...

There are songs about abortions, about slashing your arms with razors, about imagining your own funeral in New Orleans, about rock stars cheating on their wives, sex.

Kurt had this dumb suicidal ideation - that's what I called it. I thought if we could live through this, we could live through anything.

Being offended is part of being in the real world.

My mentors are people like Cameron Crowe and Carrie Fisher.

Being famous is just like being in high school. But I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed.

I wanna be the girl with the most cake.

I'm clean and sober for over a year and no one seems to care! They're like, 'Oh, her dramatic weight gain.' So, stop making fun of me!

In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.

I have no intention of dying young and being some stinking rock'n'roll person.

We went through ten years of the Limp Bizkit thing, and I didn't know what to do.

Kurt Cobain was Nirvana. He named the band, hired its members, played guitar, wrote the songs, fronted the band onstage and in interviews, and took responsibility for the band's business decisions.

I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone because it'll ruin my image.

Only dumb people are happy.

It was terrifying to realize life goes on without you.

I think commercial success is really important. It means there are more people listening, and you're affecting the zeitgeist more. If only a hundred people know you exist, it's harder to get your message across.

I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.

I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics.

I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.

You want to live the dream? You do what you want on your terms.

I am God and my lawyers are my 12 disciples ... do not f**k with me!

To me, 'selling out' means everyone bought a ticket.

I'm a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan.

I found my inner bitch and ran with her.

I listen to too many people. I'm only going to listen to my gut for the rest of my life.

How does Macy Gray or Kid Rock not win over Christina Aguilera?

Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!

I need the gays at the shows. If I don't have the gays, I just go nuts, because they always know every word and they're the best core audience you can have.

I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean empathy, hedonism, a libertarianism.

I wish I was beautiful or at least wise, but I'm simply mad and violent.

There's not a lot of people expressing anger in the culture. They're expressing a lot of hyper-exaggerated sexuality.

I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky.

Own what you are, and I mean whether that's art, or whether that's fashion, or whether that's music, or whether that's acting, or whether that's politics, or whether that's literature; it's own what you are, and grab it, and, you know, be as prolific as possible.

What makes the most money for this business? Dead rock stars.

He was so gorgeous ... Kurt. I don't know how I got lucky that way.

I have a deathly fear of mediocrity and that nips at my heels and gets me into a lot of trouble.

Movie stars are supposed to be healthy. They're kept happy and nutritionally together.

I do wish I ruled the world, I think it'd be a better place.

If you want to ask about my drug problem, go ask my big, fat, smart, ten pound daughter, she'll answer any questions you have about it.

No guy is worth your tears, but when you find that one that could be worth it, he shouldn't make you cry.

No one's coming in seeing my dogs, daughter or the crack of my ass, forget it.

You've got to be prepared for the names they are going to call you compared to your male peers ... You will be a floozy and a slattern. He will be virile and a ladies' man. You will be a freakshow, a retching wretch, a sloppy drunk. He will be charismatic, vainglorious, a ferocious drunk and Dionysian. You will be indiscriminate and desperate. He will be generous, tortured and driven.

It's the horsey-shape piece that moves in an L shape. It's what makes chess complicated, and why stupid people can't play chess. Go play checkers! Knights are the first piece you look at. They elevate the game. No chess master wants to lose her knights.

I don't need any plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.

Songs need to have a secret, cryptic, thematic thing about them, otherwise they are just messy and all over the place.

The only thing that's really riled me up in the last ten years has been the White Stripes. That's the one band that's gotten me competitive, and that's good.

I like free gowns.

You should learn when to go
YOU SHOULD LEARN HOW TO SAY NO

Four inch nails is more like it!

The American public really does have a death wish for me. They want me to die. I'm not going to die.

I want to be the girl with the most cake.

I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.

The minute I got skinny and got a nose job and became photogenic, and all of a sudden I had a bidding war, and every boy I ever wanted, wanted me.

I'm so proud of myself. I worked with anger, with the darkest things in the world.

The past is part of the present, is part of the future, it's all part of being an artist. You cannot be something that you're not when you're not that thing anymore, and if you do that then you're a liar.

I like all the angels around because they protect me and my daughter. I mean, her Dad's an angel.

I don't think you can ever do too much. Life would be so boring if you didn't have these, like, holes to fall into and climb out of. I want to do everything. I just want everything. I don't think you can ever have too much.

Making good records tastes good in your mouh. And when that record sells, it tastes even better.

I cannot exist as a solo artist.

I'm not a theater rat, so I never got a theatrical agent and did a play. I came really close though.

Being a rock widow is not my job, so I would hire people to do it for me.

I'm pretty normal in some ways. In some ways I'm completely extraordinary, and in other ways I'm completely weird and eccentric.

Don't be bitter and mean 'couse you don't fit in, it's a GIFT. Look at you. you've got your individuality, you don't have the herd instinct, you can read Neitzsche and understand it. Only dumb people are happy.

When you're dying and your life is flashing before your eyes, you're gonna be thinking about the great things that you did, the horrible things that you did and the emotional impact that someone had on you and that you had on somebody else. Those are the things that are relevant. To have some sort of emotional impact that transcends your time, that's great. As long as you don't mess it up by being undignified when you're old.

I'd definitely like to see less twerking and more power chords.

I'm offended every time I see George Bush on TV!

On Sofia Coppola's 16th birthday, way back in 1987, I stole a lip gloss from her Sistine Chapel of a bedroom. Years later, I left a Chanel lip gloss in the reception of the Mercer Hotel for her. You know why? I believe that you've got to fix your karma.

For years, despite having impeccable taste, I didn't understand how to convey that I had impeccable taste

If I see a chick playing guitar, I'm drawn to that band immediately. I want to know everything, even if it's completely electronic. But you have to really get my attention if you're male. I can't help it. It's part of my nature.

But, you know, all good rock is easy.

Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.

You know, if Nicole Kidman was a rock star, she'd be alot more professional than me, I'm sorry.

I don't watch reality TV much, but sometimes I'll be on the E! channel and see that show "Total Divas", about female wrestlers. It's like, fake tits are de rigueur. Nose jobs are de rigueur. Exaggerated asses are de rigueur. Twerking is de rigueur.

I lived out my little rock'n'roll fantasy, I just wish I hadn't gotten into so much trouble for it.

If there's any time you should be on drugs it's when you're pregnant, cause it sucks.

I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist.

I'm a major feminist. There's a real politic in life, where I've been in rooms where real decisions are made, and it's a lot of powerful white men. There are women in those rooms, but not as many as there should be.

I had found The Runaways and I had seen Foxes, and I decided I was just gonna become a juvie, like Cherie Currie.

I am not here to make you feel better, I am just here to make you feel worse

I get nervous about press and about being rejected or disappointing myself.

I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the best.

Time flies when you're falling down ... (not from a book, it's a lyric)

America does four things better than any other country in the world: rock music, movies, software and high-speed pizza delivery. All of these are sacred American art forms.

Real girls aren't perfect, and perfect girls aren't real

I'm a survivor, at least that's what everyone tells me.

I'm driven. I am. I'm driven for some reason. But I don't know where I'm going.

The Kurt thing has burdened me so much.

To find your female scream and not withhold is so liberating. You can do anything then. It's like you can fly. It gives you superpowers.

Remember, if you write anything nasty about me, I'll come around and blow up your toilet.

For people considering suicide, it is bullshit. Endure the moment.

These are my wakeup cupcakes, some anti-depressants, and a cell phone book