Quotes by Courtney Love

• You gotta be able to change worlds.
• What makes the most money for this business? Dead rock stars.
• We went through ten years of the Limp Bizkit thing, and I didn't know what to do.
• Warren Beatty took an interest in my career at one point.
• 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.
• The Kurt thing has burdened me so much.
• My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.
• You need to write on your own and produce your own life.
• I cannot exist as a solo artist.
• Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.
• I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone or it will ruin my image.
• 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 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.
• I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me.
• I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics.
• 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 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 like free gowns.
• I like all the angels around because they protect me and my daughter. I mean, her Dad's an angel.
• I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.
• 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.
• I did not want to make the widow record. I still haven't made the widow record.
• I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist.
• I can turn on the radio right now and be inspired.
• I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the best.
• He was so gorgeous... Kurt. I don't know how I got lucky that way.
• Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!
• But, you know, all good rock is easy.
• But let me tell you something. Gloria Steinem never helped me out; Larry Flynt did.
• But I always wound up being the damn John, when I wanted to be the Paul.
• Being offended is part of being in the real world.
• 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.
• Being a rock widow is not my job, so I would hire people to do it for me.
• Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.
• I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand.
• I'm offended every time I see George Bush on TV!
• 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.
• In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.
• I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.
• 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.
• Only dumb people are happy.
• 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.
• Movie stars are supposed to be healthy. They're kept happy and nutritionally together.
• 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.
• My mentors are people like Cameron Crowe and Carrie Fisher.
• I'm not going to hurt anybody other than that dick who keeps writing songs about me.
• I'm not a woman. I'm a force of nature.
• I'm driven. I am. I'm driven for some reason. But I don't know where I'm going.
• 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!
• I'm a survivor, at least that's what everyone tells me.
• I'm a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan.
• I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist. But let me tell you something. Gloria Steinem never helped me out; Larry Flynt did.