Quotes
- 'Only dumb people are happy'
- 'Somebody's gotta be the big fuck-up, right?'
- [Regarding Tori Amos] 'Her cover version of Smells Like Teen Spirit is the reason Kurt killed himself.'
- 'I'm not a woman. I'm a force of nature.'
- 'I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbra Streisand.'
- 'I found my inner bitch and ran with her.'
- 'I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone or it will ruin my image.'
- 'I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start
- [Explaining the question 'drugs' to her child daughter] 'Cocaine is like really evil coffee.'
- 'I'm a survivor, at least that's what everyone tells me.'
- 'I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics.'
- 'He's not going to get away from me that easily. I'll follow him through hell.' [after Kurt's alleged suicide attempt]
- 'He was so gorgeous... Kurt. I don't know how I got lucky that way.'
- 'I've seen your repulsion and it looks real good on you...'
- '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 like all the angels around because they protect me and my daughter. I mean, her Dad's an angel.'
- 'He had to go be an angel' [on where Kurt was]
- 'I'm not going to hurt anybody other than that dick who keeps writing songs about me.'
- 'I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the best.'
- 'Rock is really about dick and testosterone. I go and see a band, I want to fuck the guy - that's the way it is. It's always been that way.'
- '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.'
- '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.' - [Commenting to NME on the hypocritically differing attitudes towards male and female rockstars.]
- 'Look, I'm not politically correct and I'm not the voice of a generation.. so FUCK YOU!'
- [On Nine Inch Nails: 'Four inch nails is more like it!
- 'If you treat a girl like a dog, she is going to piss on you.'
- 'The affairs of Nirvana are so massive and so huge, and they've all fallen on my lap.'- Shortly after selling 25 of her share in Nirvana's publishing rights to a former Virgin Records executive.
- 'Well, it's not the fucking Pilates, and it's not the fucking liposuction. It's called goddamned starvation because I can't afford to buy any fucking groceries!'
- 'I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.'
- 'Are you there, are you there, are you fucking anywhere? Are you an angel now? Fuck you'[lying in Kurt's blood after his suicide]
- 'She's like this perfection, this utter purity that's uncorrupted by anything. And if somebody were to fuck with my child, I would not hesitate to kill them.'
- 'He always said he was going to outlive everybody and live to be 120.... He such an asshole. I want all of you to yell 'asshole' really loud. Say 'You're a fucker.' And then say that you love him.' [during recording of reading Kurt's suicide note to fans]
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