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.

Cocaine is like really evil coffee.

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

Only dumb people are happy.

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!

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.

On Sofia Coppola's 16th birthday, way back in 1987, I stole a lip gloss from her Sistine Chapel of a bedroom. Years later, I left a Chanel lip gloss in the reception of the Mercer Hotel for her. You know why? I believe that you've got to fix your karma.

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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 have a lot of regrets, of course I do. I should have taken that part; I should have maybe married that one, I don't know, but I didn't. So I am what I am and I'm pretty confident that I can break in. I think what I have to offer on film and on television is honest.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Own what you are, and I mean whether that's art, or whether that's fashion, or whether that's music, or whether that's acting, or whether that's politics, or whether that's literature; it's own what you are, and grab it, and, you know, be as prolific as possible.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I'm covered with loser dust.

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

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

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

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.

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

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