56 Courtney Love Quotes

Courtney Love quotes

1. 'Only dumb people are happy'

2. 'Somebody's gotta be the big fuck-up, right?'

3. [Regarding Tori Amos] 'Her cover version of Smells Like Teen Spirit is the reason Kurt killed himself.'

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

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

6. 'I found my inner bitch and ran with her.'

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

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

9. [Explaining the question 'drugs' to her child daughter] 'Cocaine is like really evil coffee.'

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

11. 'I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics.'

12. 'He's not going to get away from me that easily. I'll follow him through hell.' [after Kurt's alleged suicide attempt]

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

14. 'I've seen your repulsion and it looks real good on you...'

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

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

17. 'He had to go be an angel' [on where Kurt was]

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

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

20. '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.'

21. '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.'

22. '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.]

23. 'Look, I'm not politically correct and I'm not the voice of a generation.. so FUCK YOU!'

24. [On Nine Inch Nails: 'Four inch nails is more like it!

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

26. '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.

27. '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!'

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

29. '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]

30. '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.'

31. '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]

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

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

3. The Kurt thing has burdened me so much.

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. [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.

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

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

13. Cocaine is like really evil coffee.

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

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

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

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

18. 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.

19. 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.

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

21. In rock 'n' roll it's really about being as vulnerable as possible and giving them what they want. But onstage it's about pausing, about internal life, it's about internal triggers - that's one of the reasons I'm really challenged to do a play.

22. 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.

23. 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.

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

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