Courtney Love Quotes
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If I fuckin' die without having written two, three, or four brilliant rock songs... I don't know why I lived my life.
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With me and Kurt, it was either Bonnie and Clyde, Sid and Nancy, or mommy. That's where it got at the end, but the rest of the time it was equal. The equality was based on Bonnie and Clyde, which is fucking goddamn fun. And Romeo and Juliet. But it was also Hamlet and Hamlet. Not Hamlet and Ophelia. These two fucking Hamlets sitting around.
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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.
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My goal keeps me alive, and no personal issue is going to interfere with that. If people try to put me in the crazy box–'crazy fucking Courtney'–go ahead. But if you think you’re going to stop me from where I’m going, you’re not going to do it. I work my ass off. I deliver the goddamn goods. And I will deliver them again.
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In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.
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I wanted my anger to be valid, and the only way to do that is to be fairly attractive.
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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.
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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.
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Making good records tastes good in your mouh. And when that record sells, it tastes even better.
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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.
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You need to write on your own and produce your own life.
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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.
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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.
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I did not want to make the widow record. I still haven't made the widow record.
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I'm not a woman. I'm a force of nature.
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Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!
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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.
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I do wish I ruled the world, I think it'd be a better place.
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I wish I was beautiful or at least wise, but I’m simply mad and violent.
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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.
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I'm a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan.
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My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.
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I'm pretty normal in some ways. In some ways I'm completely extraordinary, and in other ways I'm completely weird and eccentric.
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Everything that becomes true starts with a manifesto.