Courtney Love Quotes

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

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

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

My mentors are people like Cameron Crowe and Carrie Fisher.

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

I cannot exist as a solo artist.

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

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.

Being offended is part of being in the real world.

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.

Four inch nails is more like it!

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'm covered with loser dust.

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.

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

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

Cocaine is like really evil coffee.

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

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

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!'.

Only dumb people are happy.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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'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.

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

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.

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

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

You gotta be able to change worlds.

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!

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

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

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

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

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