Quotes By Courtney Love

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

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

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!

Being offended is part of being in the real world.

My mentors are people like Cameron Crowe and Carrie Fisher.

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.

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

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

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 cannot exist as a solo artist.

You gotta be able to change worlds.

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

Only dumb people are happy.

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

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

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.

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.

I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics.

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

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