Courtney Quotes
"do not hurt yourself, destroy yourself, mangle yourself to get the football captain, be the football captain, it's that simple."
" i'm used to a man, i hate not having him - it drives me crazy, but i hate sympathy. If you want to give me anything, give me some empathy. i just came here to do my little thing and get on with something i love doing."
"i wanted to be a groupie, but i wasn't really pretty enough."
"there is a certain power that you gain from it that validates you like nothing
else. if i weren't a woman, i'd be a drag queen in a second."
"people want me to be evil because of how i come across on stage and on
record. people really, really want me to be evil...and i'm really kind of not."
"i see our daughter, and he's right there. she looks a lot like him, she is a lot
like him, and it's really nice. real innocent. real irreverent. real sweet. real
grumpy. diva. bossy boots. just such a pure heart. but it makes me, like, crazy protective. I'm just ready to really hurt the first person that messes with her. Ijust want to protect her from anything visited upon her because of her parents,or because of her beauty, or her fortune, or her misfortune, or visited upon her because she's human."
"Obviously Madonna's not a role model of mine"
”But I like being bad too, that's me. What can I do? I don't care."
“I am driven,I am. I’m driven for some reason. But I don’t know where I’m going” - 1991
"When you're dying and your life is flashing before your eyes, you're gonna be thinking about the great things that you did, the horrible things that you did and the emotional impact that someone had on you and that you had on somebody else. Those are the things that are relevant. To have some sort of emotional impact that transcends your time, that's great. As long as you don't mess it up by being undignified when you're old."
"He's not going to get away from me that easily. I'll follow him through hell"
--- Courtney Love after Kurt's suicide attempt.
"I like all the angels around because they protect me and my daughter. I mean, her Dad's an angel."
"I'm a survivor, at least that's what everyone tells me."
"He had to go be an angel."
--- Courtney Love to Frances on where Kurt was
"Melissa is a goddess. She is the best partner in crime/rock star in the world. She is the most stylish woman I know and a great musician."
--- Courtney Love talking about Melissa
"I listen to too many people. Im only going to listen to my gut for the rest of my life."
"My goal is to keep me alive, and no personal issue is going to interfere with that. If people try and put me the crazy box, - "Crazy Fucking Courtney" -, go ahead, but if you think you're going to stop me from where I'm going you're not going to do it. I work my ass off. I deliver the god damn goods. And I will deliver them again."
"That which is imagined need never be lost."
"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."