Quotes from Courtney Love

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

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

Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a little Jew he would have [expletive] stuck it out.

It was terrifying to realize life goes on without you.

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

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

I found my inner bitch and ran with her.

Time flies when you're falling down"...(not from a book, it's a lyric)

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.

I wanna be the girl with the most cake.

Don't be bitter and mean 'cause 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 Nietzsche and understand it. Only dumb people are happy.

I want to be the girl with the most cake.

I am not here to make you feel better, I am just here to make you feel worse

It's hard for me to give this advice, but it's advice I wish I had been given when I was younger. Patti Smith recounts that Williams S. Burroughs taught her this when she was young: 'Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don't make compromises. Don't worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned with doing good work. And make the right choices and protect your work. And if you can build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency.

It's hard for me to give this advice, but it's advice I wish I had been given when I was young: 'Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don't make compromises. Don't worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned with doing good work. And make the right choices and protect your work. And if you can build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency.

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.

I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics.

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

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

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