Courtney Love quotes:

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  • 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.

  • 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!

  • 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.

  • 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'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.

  • It's a radical time for musicians, a really revolutionary time, and I believe revolutions like Napster are a lot more fun than cash, which by the way we don't have at major labels anyway, so we might as well get with it and get in the game.

  • 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.

  • Warren Beatty took an interest in my career at one point.

  • 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.

  • You need to write on your own and produce your own life.

  • I surrounded myself with women when I was growing up because I had this horrible psycho father. Now I'm trying to really appreciate and like men more.

  • 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.

  • My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.

  • I'm not a woman. I'm a force of nature.

  • I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone or it will ruin my image.

  • I like there to be some testosterone in rock, and it's like I'm the one in the dress who has to provide it.

  • Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.

  • 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'm not going to hurt anybody other than that dick who keeps writing songs about me.

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

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

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

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

  • You gotta be able to change worlds.

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

  • I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me.

  • Much of my high-jinx have been drug-related. When you're under 30, whatever, but once you're past 40 it's just ugly.

  • But I always wound up being the damn John, when I wanted to be the Paul.

  • Being offended is part of being in the real world.

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

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

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

  • I can turn on the radio right now and be inspired.

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

  • I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics.

  • 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.

  • My daughter is an angel on earth, so when I see her it all goes away. I see her and - phew! - all that dark goes away pretty much.

  • I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand.

  • The road of rock and roll (much like life) is littered with broken dreams and death. And it's our job to overcome these and to survive.

  • My mentors are people like Cameron Crowe and Carrie Fisher.

  • I keep social with everyone because I want to know what's going on at every level. At the same time, if I'm not alone a certain amount of time per day then I'll go nuts, because I can't write and I can't think. I can't deal with people all the time. I like being alone. I'm a bit of a cat lady in that way.

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

  • [Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a little Jew he would have [expletive] stuck it out.

  • Cocaine is like really evil coffee.

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

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

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

  • Only dumb people are happy.

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

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

  • When you're feeling overwhelmed in business, one smart idea can beat the biggest Super Bowl ad.

  • But let me tell you something. Gloria Steinem never helped me out; Larry Flynt did.

  • 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.

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

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

  • I would like to say in defense of the Christian religion that there are nice things about it. There really are. And Marilyn can tear up the Bible all he wants and I understand why, but... there's good things in the Bible. Good things. Like about, you know, not killing people, and... you know... not sleeping with people's husbands.

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

  • It's very hard to describe to people sometimes the way I grew up, because it wasn't like my parents were irresponsible. They weren't necessarily reckless, but they were bringing all types of energy into the house, all kinds of people.

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

  • I cannot exist as a solo artist.

  • The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.

  • When I stepped out from doing films and had a dark period, I never did anything dark on a set, so I never made enemies on a set. I never was a bad girl on a set; I always considered films a really sacred space, so when I had my problems, I had them very much away from the film community.

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

  • 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.

  • I've discreetly dated a lot of people - I once dated a billionaire, mostly because it was fun to say, "I'm dating a billionaire," but we did not have the same taste in music, and it was doomed.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The Kurt thing has burdened me so much.

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

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

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

  • I like free gowns.

  • But, you know, all good rock is easy.

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

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

  • How can you love me if you dont know me? I stink really bad.

  • I have a lot of regrets, of course I do. I should have taken that part; I should have maybe married that one, I don't know, but I didn't. So I am what I am and I'm pretty confident that I can break in. I think what I have to offer on film and on television is honest.

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

  • Don't date the captain of the football team; be the captain of the football team.

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

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

  • I did not want to make the widow record. I still haven't made the widow record.

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

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

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

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

  • I want to be the girl with the most cake.

  • That which is imagined need never be lost.

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • So, I gained a little..weight, .. Big deal. Clean and sober.

  • Princess Di is my sister, she just won't admit it.

  • Four inch nails is more like it!

  • 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'm covered with loser dust.

  • I wish people would just like me for what I am, the singer in an OK new wave band.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • Unless there are pictures, I don't admit to anything.

  • If you (the press) lie about us, I will hit you, Kurt will shoot you, and we both will sue.

  • When I see 16 year-olds waiting for me, I just want to spank them and give them guitars and tell them to start bands. It's a bummer that girls have to respond to rock artists sexually instead of, like, 'wow, me too!'.

  • 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.

  • I don't really miss God but I sure miss Santa Claus!

  • Everything that becomes true starts with a manifesto

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

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

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