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Courtney Love Quotes

Singer, Actress
Born On
1964-07-09
Birth Place
San Francisco, California
Birth Sign
cancer
Father
Hank Harrison
Mother
Linda Carroll
Spouse
James Moreland, Kurt Cobain (m. 1992–1994)
Nationality
American
Education
Trinity College, Dublin

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

Courtney Love

Only dumb people are happy.

Courtney Love

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

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

Courtney Love

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.

Courtney Love

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

Courtney Love

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

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

Courtney Love

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

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I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics.

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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.

Courtney Love

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

Courtney Love

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

Courtney Love

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!

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

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

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

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

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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.

Courtney Love

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.

Courtney Love

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.

Courtney Love

Warren Beatty took an interest in my career at one point.

Courtney Love

The only thing that's really riled me up in the last ten years has been the White Stripes. That's the one band that's gotten me competitive, and that's good.

Courtney Love

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

Courtney Love

We went through ten years of the Limp Bizkit thing, and I didn't know what to do.

Courtney Love

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.

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The Kurt thing has burdened me so much.

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My mentors are people like Cameron Crowe and Carrie Fisher.

Courtney Love

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

Courtney Love

You gotta be able to change worlds.

Courtney Love

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

Courtney Love

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

Courtney Love

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

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

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

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But, you know, all good rock is easy.

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I like free gowns.

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I cannot exist as a solo artist.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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Being offended is part of being in the real world.

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

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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.

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

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