Courtney Love Quotes

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

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

Being offended is part of being in the real world. ~ Courtney Love

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

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

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

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. ~ Courtney Love

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

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. ~ Courtney Love

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. ~ Courtney Love

I like free gowns. ~ Courtney Love

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

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. ~ Courtney Love

Four inch nails is more like it! ~ Courtney Love

As far as female vocalists, I love Heart, Joan Jett, Courtney Love, Laura Branigan, Linda Ronstadt, Barbra Streisand - or going back to when I was a child, Aileen Quinn, the original Annie. ~ Fergie

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

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. ~ Courtney Love

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

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

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

I'm covered with loser dust. ~ Courtney Love

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. ~ Courtney Love

My mentors are people like Cameron Crowe and Carrie Fisher. ~ Courtney Love

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

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. ~ Courtney Love

It was terrifying to realize life goes on without you. ~ Courtney Love

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. ~ Courtney Love

I wanna be the girl with the most cake. ~ Courtney Love

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

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

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

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

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. ~ Courtney Love

I'm so glad Courtney Love is here; I left my crack in my other purse. ~ Sarah Silverman

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. ~ Courtney Love

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. ~ Courtney Love

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

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

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

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. ~ Courtney Love

I don't think, 'Gee, I'd like to dress this person.' There was a picture in Us magazine. It was a jersey dress, and Courtney Love was wearing it. I have this thing about Courtney Love, this funny worship. ~ Marc Jacobs

I'm like Courtney Love without the drugs, right? Edgy. Full of unspoken feeling.'
'You're a brick when the guy is real and in front of you. ~ Cath Crowley

My daughter will say she's hungry, and I'm like, 'Buddy, you're just bored. Do you understand? And you're already starting a pattern of satisfying an internal disconnect with an external stimulation, and that's a dead-end road, sweetie. Courtney Love lives on that road; you don't want to live on that road. ~ Dana Gould

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. ~ Courtney Love

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

The Kurt thing has burdened me so much. ~ Courtney Love

I want to be the girl with the most cake. ~ Courtney Love

How is it possible that Courtney Love looks worse than Kurt Cobain? ~ Jeff Ross

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

I don't think we're totally responsible. But you know, all the bands said it, that we did. Even Courtney Love said that. Anyway, Courtney called her band Hole, get it? Slits? Hole? So it's pretty clear we were an influence on all of them, but I'm not really sure how far it goes. I was on a different planet at the time. ~ Ari Up

I am not a woman. I am a force of nature ... ~ Courtney Love

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

Every freak has a mother. When I met Marilyn Manson I was struck by how nice he was. People are rarely as weird as you anticipate. Except for Courtney Love-who reminded me of that mad snake in The Jungle Book. ~ Boy George

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

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. ~ Courtney Love

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

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. ~ Courtney Love

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

Real girls aren't perfect, and perfect girls aren't real ~ Courtney Love

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. ~ Courtney Love

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

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. ~ Courtney Love

I don't know, but I always loved that image of a girl putting toenail polish on a guy - her boyfriend, or something like that. Or a guy waking up in the morning and reaching over and putting on his girlfriend's shirt. Like Keith Richards putting on one of Anita Pallenberg's blouses, or Courtney Love putting nail polish on Kurt Cobain. ~ Marc Jacobs

I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics. ~ Courtney Love

My mom is awesome. She's really young. My mom is 40, and she raised me listening to Nirvana and Courtney Love and Coldplay, Gin Blossoms, The Cranberries, and stuff. Like, my early, early memories are of being a little kid running around in floral skirts and Doc Martens when I was, like, three. ~ Halsey

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

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. ~ Courtney Love

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. ~ Courtney Love

When I got into all the grunge stuff, I really liked Hole. I actually saw them in concert when I was a sophomore in high school. It was kind of rare to see a successful female rocker get down and dirty with the guys. And Courtney Love did. It was fun to be a fan of something different. ~ Carrie Underwood

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

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

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

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

I knew [Kurt Cobain] and his daughter. And Courtney [Love] came and stayed at my house. R.E.M. worked on two records in Seattle and Peter Buck lived next door to Kurt and Courtney. So we all knew each other. I reached out to him with that project as an attempt to prevent what was going to happen. ~ Michael Stipe

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. ~ Courtney Love

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. ~ Courtney Love

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

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. ~ Courtney Love

Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters. ~ Dakota Fanning

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. ~ Courtney Love

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

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

Only dumb people are happy. ~ Courtney Love

If I could get that girl to publish her poetry, the world would change. (On Courtney Love) ~ Kurt Cobain

I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain. ~ Taylor Momsen

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

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. ~ Courtney Love

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

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

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

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! ~ Courtney Love

I cannot exist as a solo artist. ~ Courtney Love

If Nick Broomfield never found anyone with affection for Courtney Love, it's only because he conspicuously avoided the countless friends, colleagues and fans who appreciate her talent and admire her as a person. But then, why would Broomfield have opened up his film to those of us who work with Courtney and are close to her when there are so many bitter left - behinds and desperate attention - seekers eager to validate his attack on her character? Inquisitors in every age, scared of forceful women, have used all kinds of half - baked testimony to whip up chants of 'Burn the witch!' ~ Edward Norton

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

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. ~ Courtney Love

Courtney Love is a loose cannon. She says what she thinks. She's wild on the red carpet. You get the best sound bites from Courtney Love. ~ Steven Cojocaru

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

I met Courtney Love and she said she'd like to sleep with me, but she couldn't cos of my "pop-star thing" ... so I said to her I couldn't sleep with her either - cos of her 'ugly thing' ... ~ Robbie Williams

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

I found my inner bitch and ran with her. ~ Courtney Love