31 Courtney Love Quotes

Courtney Love quotes

1. 'Only dumb people are happy'

2. 'Somebody's gotta be the big fuck-up, right?'

3. [Regarding Tori Amos] 'Her cover version of Smells Like Teen Spirit is the reason Kurt killed himself.'

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

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

6. 'I found my inner bitch and ran with her.'

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

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

9. [Explaining the question 'drugs' to her child daughter] 'Cocaine is like really evil coffee.'

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

11. 'I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics.'

12. 'He's not going to get away from me that easily. I'll follow him through hell.' [after Kurt's alleged suicide attempt]

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

14. 'I've seen your repulsion and it looks real good on you...'

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

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

17. 'He had to go be an angel' [on where Kurt was]

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

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

20. 'Rock is really about dick and testosterone. I go and see a band, I want to fuck the guy - that's the way it is. It's always been that way.'

21. '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.'

22. '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.' - [Commenting to NME on the hypocritically differing attitudes towards male and female rockstars.]

23. 'Look, I'm not politically correct and I'm not the voice of a generation.. so FUCK YOU!'

24. [On Nine Inch Nails: 'Four inch nails is more like it!

25. 'If you treat a girl like a dog, she is going to piss on you.'

26. 'The affairs of Nirvana are so massive and so huge, and they've all fallen on my lap.'- Shortly after selling 25 of her share in Nirvana's publishing rights to a former Virgin Records executive.

27. 'Well, it's not the fucking Pilates, and it's not the fucking liposuction. It's called goddamned starvation because I can't afford to buy any fucking groceries!'

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

29. 'Are you there, are you there, are you fucking anywhere? Are you an angel now? Fuck you'[lying in Kurt's blood after his suicide]

30. 'She's like this perfection, this utter purity that's uncorrupted by anything. And if somebody were to fuck with my child, I would not hesitate to kill them.'

31. 'He always said he was going to outlive everybody and live to be 120.... He such an asshole. I want all of you to yell 'asshole' really loud. Say 'You're a fucker.' And then say that you love him.' [during recording of reading Kurt's suicide note to fans]