Top 100 Courtney Love Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I’ve done enough films to know how to save up my energy for the take and then give it on the take and do that.”

— Courtney Love

52. “Own what you are, and I mean whether that’s art, or whether that’s fashion, or whether that’s music, or whether that’s acting, or whether that’s politics, or whether that’s literature; it’s own what you are, and grab it, and, you know, be as prolific as possible.”

— Courtney Love

53. “Making good records tastes good in your mouh. And when that record sells, it tastes even better.”

— Courtney Love

54. “But, you know, all good rock is easy.”

— Courtney Love

55. “A good stylist knows that and is not going to push you to wear something that you’re not comfortable with.”

— Courtney Love

56. “I wanted my anger to be valid, and the only way to do that is to be fairly attractive.”

— Courtney Love

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

— Courtney Love

58. “I need the gays at the shows. If I don’t have the gays, I just go nuts, because they always know every word and they’re the best core audience you can have.”

— Courtney Love

59. “I’m not a theater rat, so I never got a theatrical agent and did a play. I came really close though.”

— Courtney Love

60. “I’m pretty normal in some ways. In some ways I’m completely extraordinary, and in other ways I’m completely weird and eccentric.”

— Courtney Love

61. “I lived out my little rock’n’roll fantasy, I just wish I hadn’t gotten into so much trouble for it.”

— Courtney Love

62. “You gotta be able to change worlds.”

— Courtney Love

63. “I cannot exist as a solo artist.”

— Courtney Love

64. “I wish I was beautiful or at least wise, but I’m simply mad and violent.”

— Courtney Love

65. “On Sofia Coppola’s 16th birthday, way back in 1987, I stole a lip gloss from her Sistine Chapel of a bedroom. Years later, I left a Chanel lip gloss in the reception of the Mercer Hotel for her. You know why? I believe that you’ve got to fix your karma.”

— Courtney Love

66. “The past is part of the present, is part of the future, it’s all part of being an artist. You cannot be something that you’re not when you’re not that thing anymore, and if you do that then you’re a liar.”

— Courtney Love

67. “Don’t date the captain of the football team; be the captain of the football team.”

— Courtney Love

68. “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.”

— Courtney Love

69. “Kurt Cobain was Nirvana. He named the band, hired its members, played guitar, wrote the songs, fronted the band onstage and in interviews, and took responsibility for the band’s business decisions.”

— Courtney Love

70. “My daughter is an angel on earth, so when I see her it all goes away. I see her and – phew! – all that dark goes away pretty much.”

— Courtney Love

71. “I don’t really miss God but I sure miss Santa Claus!”

— Courtney Love

72. “Being a rock star is like being a cult leader – you really have to be in your own religion.”

— Courtney Love

73. “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!”

— Courtney Love

74. “Being offended is part of being in the real world.”

— Courtney Love

75. “You know, if Nicole Kidman was a rock star, she’d be alot more professional than me, I’m sorry.”

— Courtney Love

76. “I’m not psychic, but my lyrics are.”

— Courtney Love

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

— Courtney Love

78. “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.”

— Courtney Love

79. “I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics.”

— Courtney Love

80. “If I see a chick playing guitar, I’m drawn to that band immediately. I want to know everything, even if it’s completely electronic. But you have to really get my attention if you’re male. I can’t help it. It’s part of my nature.”

— Courtney Love

81. “Don’t be bitter and mean ’couse you don’t fit in, it’s a GIFT. Look at you. you’ve got your individuality, you don’t have the herd instinct, you can read Neitzsche and understand it. Only dumb people are happy.”

— Courtney Love

82. “I don’t watch reality TV much, but sometimes I’ll be on the E! channel and see that show “Total Divas”, about female wrestlers. It’s like, fake tits are de rigueur. Nose jobs are de rigueur. Exaggerated asses are de rigueur. Twerking is de rigueur.”

— Courtney Love

83. “Princess Di is my sister, she just won’t admit it.”

— Courtney Love

84. “It’s very hard to describe to people sometimes the way I grew up, because it wasn’t like my parents were irresponsible. They weren’t necessarily reckless, but they were bringing all types of energy into the house, all kinds of people.”

— Courtney Love

85. “How does Macy Gray or Kid Rock not win over Christina Aguilera?”

— Courtney Love

86. “I’ve been screwed by as many women as I have by men, in terms of lawyers. But lawyers don’t count. If you take lawyers out of the equation, you have a more fair playing field. There is a sisterhood.”

— Courtney Love

87. “I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean empathy, hedonism, a libertarianism.”

— Courtney Love

88. “I have a lot of regrets, of course I do. I should have taken that part; I should have maybe married that one, I don’t know, but I didn’t. So I am what I am and I’m pretty confident that I can break in. I think what I have to offer on film and on television is honest.”

— Courtney Love

89. “I wish people would just like me for what I am, the singer in an OK new wave band.”

— Courtney Love

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

— Courtney Love

91. “America does four things better than any other country in the world: rock music, movies, software and high-speed pizza delivery. All of these are sacred American art forms.”

— Courtney Love

92. “The American public really does have a death wish for me. They want me to die. I’m not going to die.”

— Courtney Love

93. “I’m a major feminist. There’s a real politic in life, where I’ve been in rooms where real decisions are made, and it’s a lot of powerful white men. There are women in those rooms, but not as many as there should be.”

— Courtney Love

94. “These are my wakeup cupcakes, some anti-depressants, and a cell phone book.”

— Courtney Love

95. “Remember, if you write anything nasty about me, I’ll come around and blow up your toilet.”

— Courtney Love

96. “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.”

— Courtney Love

97. “Twitter is an amazing thing, because people follow each other and they can make friends.”

— Courtney Love

98. “In rock ‘n’ roll it’s really about being as vulnerable as possible and giving them what they want. But onstage it’s about pausing, about internal life, it’s about internal triggers – that’s one of the reasons I’m really challenged to do a play.”

— Courtney Love

99. “I have no intention of dying young and being some stinking rock’n’roll person.”

— Courtney Love

100. “Unless there are pictures, I don’t admit to anything.”

— Courtney Love