Quotes By Courtney Love

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

Only dumb people are happy.

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

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

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

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

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.

I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics.

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

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

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

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

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'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.

The Kurt thing has burdened me so much.

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

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.

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

But, you know, all good rock is easy.

You gotta be able to change worlds.

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

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

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 a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan.

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.

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.

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.

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