Courtney Love Quotations

Only dumb people are happy.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 might lie a lot but never in my lyrics.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Being offended is part of being in the real world.

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.

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

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

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.

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

But, you know, all good rock is easy.

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

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

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'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!

My mentors are people like Cameron Crowe and Carrie Fisher.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

The Kurt thing has burdened me so much.

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

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

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

I was interested in being in Fight Club, but I wanted Edward's part, but since they're not going to hand a girl those parts you have to manifest destiny and not complain, bitch or whine.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

[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 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 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 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'm not psychic, but my lyrics are.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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!'.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I'm covered with loser dust.

Everything that becomes true starts with a manifesto

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.

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

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

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

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

I cannot exist as a solo artist.

You gotta be able to change worlds.

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

Cocaine is like really evil coffee.

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.

That which is imagined need never be lost.

I want to be the girl with the most cake.

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

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

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

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