Courtney love quotes

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

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.

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

Mainstream success is important - that's probably anathema to an indie publication like Pitchfork, but it's what I believe having experienced it personally.

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

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 think when you get married, it should be forever. Even though I did get married once and it was annulled. I don't know. For myself, I just want to have kids by the same person and stay with the same person.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I'm not psychic, but my lyrics are.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Being offended is part of being in the real world.

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'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.

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.

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.

Only dumb people are happy.

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.

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.

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.

Four inch nails is more like it!

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

Even if you don't release it, find a scream. It's so liberating. You can do anything then. It’s like you can fly. It gives you superpowers.

A great writer named Neal Stephenson said that 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. Let's return to our purity and our idealism while we have this shot.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Everything that becomes true starts with a manifesto

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I wish I was beautiful or at least wise, but I’m simply mad and violent.

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.

When my mother was trying to teach me how to make friends when I was a kid, she'd bring girls over to the house and I'd give them all my clothes. Nothing changes, I still do it. And then I wonder, "Where is that really nice Isabel Marant dress that I spent a fortune on? Oh my god, I gave it to Liza."

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

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

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

[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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

You couldn’t pay me a billion dollars to take marijuana. I don’t really like coke anymore. I’m scared of ecstasy. The one drug I'd like to try one day is Ayahuasca, which should be mandatory for everybody. It’s apparently this crazy tea that gives you these intense hallucinations. Everyone who takes it sees a wise old black man who takes you on a wild journey. I’m not going to name names, but everyone who takes it sees the same black guy. I'm not kidding you. Everyone!

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!

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!'.

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

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

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

I'm covered with loser dust.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Love is the core of everything - nothing survives without it.

Cocaine is like really evil coffee.

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.

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

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

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

These are my wakeup cupcakes, some anti-depressants and a cellphone book.

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

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

That which is imagined need never be lost.

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.

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

I cannot exist as a solo artist.

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

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

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

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

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