Quotes By Courtney Love

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

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

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

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

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

I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.

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

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

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

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 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 offended every time I see George Bush on TV!

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

I like free gowns.

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

But I always wound up being the damn John, when I wanted to be the Paul.

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

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

Being offended is part of being in the real world.

My mentors are people like Cameron Crowe and Carrie Fisher.

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

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!

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

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.

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 cannot exist as a solo artist.

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

Only dumb people are happy.