Courtney Love Quotes & Sayings

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. — Courtney Love

I don't really miss God but I sure miss Santa Claus! — Courtney Love

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

Four inch nails is more like it! — Courtney Love

The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes. — Courtney Love

That is something I'm specifically equipped to discuss - how reputation can affect even your capacity to rent a place. Having good credit is irrelevant in the face of something like getting thrown out of court six years ago. I've really thought this out. — Courtney Love

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. — Courtney Love

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

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

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

Twitter is an amazing thing, because people follow each other and they can make friends. — 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

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

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

Everything that becomes true starts with a manifesto — Courtney Love

I'm not going to hurt anybody other than that dick who keeps writing songs about me. — Courtney Love

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

Unless there are pictures, I don't admit to anything. — Courtney Love

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

You gotta be able to change worlds. — Courtney Love

You need to write on your own and produce your own life. — Courtney Love

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

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

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

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

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. — Courtney Love

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

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

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

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

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

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'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 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

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

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. — Courtney Love

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

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

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

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. — Courtney Love

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

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

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

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. — Courtney Love

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

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

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

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

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

I've been screwed by as many women as I have by men, in terms of lawyers. But lawyers don't count. If you take lawyers out of the equation, you have a more fair playing field. There is a sisterhood. — Courtney Love

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

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

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

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!'. — Courtney Love

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

But, you know, all good rock is easy. — 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'm not a theater rat, so I never got a theatrical agent and did a play. I came really close though. — Courtney Love

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

I can turn on the radio right now and be inspired. — Courtney Love

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

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

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

Don't date the captain of the football team; be the captain of the football team. — Courtney Love

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. — Courtney Love

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

How can you love me if you dont know me? I stink really bad. — Courtney Love

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

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

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

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. — 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

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

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

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

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

There's even one for your titties. I haven't done the boobs mask one yet-you just stick it on your tits, apparently. I have to try it. But I did the foot one and the hand one yesterday, and it makes my skin crazy. It's like I just had sex for four days. — Courtney Love

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

So, I gained a little..weight, .. Big deal. Clean and sober. — Courtney Love

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cocaine is like really evil coffee. — Courtney Love

I did not want to make the widow record. I still haven't made the widow record. — Courtney Love

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

I'm covered with loser dust. — Courtney Love