Courtney Love Quotes & Trivia



Quotes

Because I'm not slutty and I don't need to prove myself so much.

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

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

Being offended is part of being in the real world.

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

But I don't want Kurt in a bank vault somewhere.

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

But, you know, all good rock is easy.

Cocaine is like really evil coffee.

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

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

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

I can look at men now and not see the enemy and that's because these men treated me so well.

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

I cannot exist as a solo artist.

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

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

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

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

I have to get back to believing that and not have voices in my head - and I'm doing that sober, which is a little rough.

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

I like free gowns.

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.

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.

I mean, I really like Eve. She kept putting out my cigarettes and making sure my bra wasn't showing at the Barbershop 2 premiere.

I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics.

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 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.

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

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

I was interested in being in Fight Club, but I wanted Edward's part, but since they're not going to hand a girl those parts you have to manifest destiny and not complain, bitch or whine.

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

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

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

I'm going to direct a romantic comedy next year.

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

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

I'm not letting anyone screw him over. It's my duty. It's around my neck but I have to guard that flame, I cannot let people hurt him anymore.

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

I've been asked to write with Andre 3000.

I've been asked to write with the Neptunes.

I've had these male role models come into my life over the course of the last five years, and that's something I've never had before. As a result, my whole outlook on men has changed.

If I was black and a rapper, I'd be Eve.

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.

In a lot of ways I wish I just had a baby with him and didn't marry him - I could've gone my own way.

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

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.

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.

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

My mentors are people like Cameron Crowe and Carrie Fisher.

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

No one will take Kurt's ashes, because they don't want crowds.

Only dumb people are happy.

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

That's what was really important to me: having control over the destiny of Kurt in terms of his spirit, where he was, and where he's destined to be.

The Kurt thing has burdened me so much.

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.

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

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

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

You gotta be able to change worlds.

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

Trivia

Courtney was ranked #38 on VH1's 50 Greatest Women of the Video Era.

Courtney was 70 on the countdown "101 Even Bigger Celebrity Oops!"(2005).

Courtney has made 53 New Year's resolutions for 2007. Courtney's list includes: - Have fantastic sex with commitment and honor with someone who treats me as I deserve and don't give my power away; - Start another family and meet that guy; Do not be a doormat in a relationship again; - Know that Kurt's spirit is tended to and tend to it daily; - Don't go to nightclubs with 19 year olds; - Another year, another year without even wine; - Make a friend a month; - Understand who my enemies are; - Learn to drive; - No more surgery for any reason other than medical until I really need it in my 60s.

Courtney signed up for The Mickey Mouse Club, but was rejected.

She has a cat named Fluffy.

In December 2006, Los Angeles Superior Court judge Rand Rubin terminated Courtney’s probation orders relating to drugs and assault charges after ruling she had successfully tackled her substance-abuse demons. Courtney had pleaded no contest in 2005 to the assault charge and guilty to possessing powerful painkillers Vicodin and Oxycontin without a valid prescription, as well as a count of being under the influence of cocaine. She had been given three years probation and had been ordered by the judge to complete year-long anger management and drug treatment programs.

Courtney has stated that she and Melissa Auf Du Mar once did cocaine with ("a naked") Kate Moss and ("a naked") Naomi Campbell.

When she was younger, Courtney has a crush on Les of the Bay City Rollers.

When she was young, Courtney was sent to a "born again" camp for troubled kids by her mother. The camp was called Camp Kiwi.

When she was in grade school, Courtney played Fagin in a play of Oliver Twist.

In 2006 Courtney began recording the solo album, How Dirty Girls Get Clean.

In November 2006, it was revealed that 42-year-old Courtney was dating a new man, Jamie Burke, who is 21-years old.

She was ranked #67 on VH1's 100 Sexiest Artists.

Musical Discovery: America's Sweetheart. Realeased on February 10, 2004 with 12 tracks.

Courtney was a fashion trendsetter. In early years she created the Kinderwhore look which was inspired by Christina Amphlett of the 1980's rock group The Divinyls.

Courtney Love is a huge fan of Stevie Nicks from the band Fleetwood Mac.

Courtney and Kurt wed on a cliff of Waikiki.

Dave Grohl gave Kurt a present from Courtney. A heart-shaped box full of seashells, pinecones, a set of tiny tea cups, a miniature doll, and all wrapped up in a valentine box. The gift would later inspire Kurt to write a song.

Rozz and his friends would call Courtney, The Black Tornado. Stating that she was nothing but trouble.

Full name: Courtney Michelle harrison Rodriguez Menely Moreland Love-Cobain.

At the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles. Kurt and Courtney had a dispute with Guns n Roses singer Axl Rose. Courtney jokingly ask's Axl to be their daughters godfather. Axl tells Kurt to Shut your woman up or I am taking you down to the pavement.

Courtney did an imitation of her friend Drew Barrymore while appearing on The Late Show With David Letterman in 2004. She got up on David Letterman's desk and flashed him full frontal nudity.

Courtney Love introduced her famous friend Drew Barrymore to the internet. Drew found it amusing to go in chat rooms and she say was herself and the reaction she would get of no one believing her while she was at Courtney's house.

Courtney has had a longtime feud with ex-Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl.

Courtney's great-grandparents (mother's mother's parents) were screenwriters Paul Harvey Fox and Elsie Fox.

For her wedding dress, Courtney wore an antique silk dress that belonged to Frances Farmer.

Courtney beat out famed actress Angelina Jolie for the lead part in the film Lovelace.

It is rumored that Courtney Love's biological maternal grandfather is actor

Courtney is currently working on her second solo album. Since Virgin Records backed out of her contract with them, she is shopping for a new label. It has been rumored that ex-

Courtney has a tattoo of an angel under her right shoulder.

Courtney has her own signature guitar line from Fender Guitars titled Venus.

Courtney's mother, Linda Caroll, is a psychologist.

Courtney dated actor Edward Norton for two years after meeting him on the set of The People vs. Larry Flynt.

Courtney's grandmother is the author Paula Fox.

The band Nerf Herder (most popular for doing the theme music for the show Buffy the Vampire Slayer) made a song about Courtney Love, called Courtney Love.