Courtney Love Quotes

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 never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object and to this day it mystifies me.

Cocaine is like really evil coffee.

Only dumb people are happy.

My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.

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

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

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

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

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

Real girls aren't perfect, and perfect girls aren't real

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.

Being offended is part of being in the real world.

I am God and my lawyers are my 12 disciples...do not f**k with me!

No guy is worth your tears, but when you find that one that could be worth it, he shouldn't make you cry.

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

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

Don't date the captain of the football team; be the captain of the football team.

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.

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

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

[Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a little Jew he would have [expletive] stuck it out.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

There's not a lot of people expressing anger in the culture. They're expressing a lot of hyper-exaggerated sexuality.

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

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

In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.

My daughter is an angel on earth, so when I see her it all goes away. I see her and - phew! - all that dark goes away pretty much.

Much of my high-jinx have been drug-related. When you're under 30, whatever, but once you're past 40 it's just ugly.

I'm covered with loser dust.

He was so gorgeous... Kurt. I don't know how I got lucky that way.

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.

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

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 not a woman. I'm a force of nature.

A good stylist knows that and is not going to push you to wear something that you're not comfortable with.

Everything that becomes true starts with a manifesto

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 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.

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.

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

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

I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics.