Top 100 Courtney Love Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Only dumb people are happy.”

— Courtney Love

2. “Real girls aren’t perfect, and perfect girls aren’t real.”

— Courtney Love

3. “I’m not a woman. I’m a force of nature.”

— Courtney Love

4. “Cocaine is like really evil coffee.”

— Courtney Love

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5. “I’m covered with loser dust.”

— Courtney Love

6. “Everything that becomes true starts with a manifesto.”

— Courtney Love

7. “I’m so proud of myself. I worked with anger, with the darkest things in the world.”

— Courtney Love

8. “Love is the core of everything – nothing survives without it.”

— Courtney Love

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

— Courtney Love

10. “I do wish I ruled the world, I think it’d be a better place.”

— Courtney Love

11. “No guy is worth your tears, but when you find that one that could be worth it, he shouldn’t make you cry.”

— Courtney Love

12. “I want to be the girl with the most cake.”

— Courtney Love

13. “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.”

— Courtney Love

14. “The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.”

— Courtney Love

15. “I don’t think you can ever do too much. Life would be so boring if you didn’t have these, like, holes to fall into and climb out of. I want to do everything. I just want everything. I don’t think you can ever have too much.”

— Courtney Love

16. “It’s the horsey-shape piece that moves in an L shape. It’s what makes chess complicated, and why stupid people can’t play chess. Go play checkers! Knights are the first piece you look at. They elevate the game. No chess master wants to lose her knights.”

— Courtney Love

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

— Courtney Love

18. “To find your female scream and not withhold is so liberating. You can do anything then. It’s like you can fly. It gives you superpowers.”

— Courtney Love

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

— Courtney Love

20. “You want to live the dream? You do what you want on your terms.”

— Courtney Love

21. “I’ve discreetly dated a lot of people – I once dated a billionaire, mostly because it was fun to say, “I’m dating a billionaire,” but we did not have the same taste in music, and it was doomed.”

— Courtney Love

22. “The minute I got skinny and got a nose job and became photogenic, and all of a sudden I had a bidding war, and every boy I ever wanted, wanted me.”

— Courtney Love

23. “If there’s any time you should be on drugs it’s when you’re pregnant, cause it sucks.”

— Courtney Love

24. “I’m driven. I am. I’m driven for some reason. But I don’t know where I’m going.”

— Courtney Love

25. “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.”

— Courtney Love

26. “I am not here to make you feel better, I am just here to make you feel worse.”

— Courtney Love

27. “To me, ‘selling out’ means everyone bought a ticket.”

— Courtney Love

28. “I’m a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan.”

— Courtney Love

29. “I’m a survivor, at least that’s what everyone tells me.”

— Courtney Love

30. “I don’t need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.”

— Courtney Love

31. “Movie stars are supposed to be healthy. They’re kept happy and nutritionally together.”

— Courtney Love

32. “Four inch nails is more like it!”

— Courtney Love

33. “No one’s coming in seeing my dogs, daughter or the crack of my ass, forget it.”

— Courtney Love

34. “I have a deathly fear of mediocrity and that nips at my heels and gets me into a lot of trouble.”

— Courtney Love

35. “There’s not a lot of people expressing anger in the culture. They’re expressing a lot of hyper-exaggerated sexuality.”

— Courtney Love

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

— Courtney Love

37. “My number one thing to work on is not being reactive – but appropriateness doesn’t come easily to me sometimes.”

— Courtney Love

38. “I’d definitely like to see less twerking and more power chords.”

— Courtney Love

39. “I had found The Runaways and I had seen Foxes, and I decided I was just gonna become a juvie, like Cherie Currie.”

— Courtney Love

40. “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.”

— Courtney Love

41. “I’ll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I’ll always be a feminist.”

— Courtney Love

42. “There are ten commandments, I’ve only broken three.”

— Courtney Love

43. “For years, despite having impeccable taste, I didn’t understand how to convey that I had impeccable taste.”

— Courtney Love

44. “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.”

— Courtney Love

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

— Courtney Love

46. “I used to do drugs, but don’t tell anyone or it will ruin my image.”

— Courtney Love

47. “I think commercial success is really important. It means there are more people listening, and you’re affecting the zeitgeist more. If only a hundred people know you exist, it’s harder to get your message across.”

— Courtney Love

48. “I’m offended every time I see George Bush on TV!”

— Courtney Love

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

— Courtney Love

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

— Courtney Love