Quotes from Courtney Love

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

I cannot exist as a solo artist.

My mentors are people like Cameron Crowe and Carrie Fisher.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I'm so proud of myself. I worked with anger, with the darkest things in the world.

There's not a lot of people expressing anger in the culture. They're expressing a lot of hyper-exaggerated sexuality.

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

When you're feeling overwhelmed in business, one smart idea can beat the biggest Super Bowl ad.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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