Courtney Love Quotes

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

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

I'm pretty normal in some ways. In some ways I'm completely extraordinary, and in other ways I'm completely weird and eccentric.

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

My mentors are people like Cameron Crowe and Carrie Fisher.

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!

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

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

Four inch nails is more like it!

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

That which is imagined need never be lost.

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.

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

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

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

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

I'm not psychic, but my lyrics are.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

I cannot exist as a solo artist.

You gotta be able to change worlds.

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

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

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

I want to be the girl with the most cake.

I've done enough films to know how to save up my energy for the take and then give it on the take and do that.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

But, you know, all good rock is easy.