Courtney Love Quotes

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

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.

When I stepped out from doing films and had a dark period, I never did anything dark on a set, so I never made enemies on a set. I never was a bad girl on a set; I always considered films a really sacred space, so when I had my problems, I had them very much away from the film community.

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

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.

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

Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The minute I got skinny and got a nose job and became photogenic, and all of a sudden I had a bidding war, and every boy I ever wanted, wanted me.

I'm driven. I am. I'm driven for some reason. But I don't know where I'm going.

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

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