Quotes By Courtney Love

But, you know, all good rock is easy.

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

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

You gotta be able to change worlds.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

I like free gowns.

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

I'm not going to hurt anybody other than that dick who keeps writing songs about me.

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.

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

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

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

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