"I'm a good mom, I have this whole life. I go to soccer every Saturday. I have a great home. My daughter's really sheltered in a good way She knows all the shit, but at the same time I protect her. She's normal. She's her own person. So I've got my thing. I'm mom, and then I'm dad/mom." -Courtney love '97
"so me and kurt get married and were peers-his band was always ahead, but the started before us. Then suddenly his band gets real successful and were not peers anymore."-Courtney 1992
"he's involved in free trade in America, and I'm not making much of a dent!"-Courtney 1992
"we did a lot of drugs, I am not proud of it ok!" Courtney 1994
"we got some pills and then we went down to Alphabet City and Kurt wore a hat, I wore a hat, and we copped some dope! Is that what you wanted to hear?!!" Courtney 1994
"we are not just a media toy!" Courtney 1995
"I'm so fucking charming, I seem to have gathered this reputation as a diva, a screamer, a loud girl who will kick your ass if you so much as look at me. So I am Mrs. Please and thanks you now!" Courtney 1993
"I really want to sell more albums than soundgarden, I just hate them, and I really love roddy buttum but I wanna sell more albums than his band too!" Courtney 1993
" I am going to pull this right now!! I can't see you die again!!!" Courtney 1994 talking to Kurt after Rome
"I should have been there, I didn't listen to my gut…." Courtney 1994
"I'm accessible! I live in a house! I have a child! I am human!!!" Courtney 1994
" and no more fucking midsuicide e-mail-call the fucking hotline or write to vedder-I'm roof borne myself…. Stop it! Stop it! You little alternateen brats! Just leave me alone!" Courtney 1994
"I almost came out Republican, the way I was raised. I mean, I was raised by white trash that considered themselves hippies. But to me, a mom and a dad is a really important thing to have."-Courtney love '97
want everybody to yell, fuck you!!, now on the count of three everyone say bitch!!, feel better now?'-Courtney Love, 1995 at a Lala show
'that's
what the stage-diving was about… kill me, crucify me, get me, come on, tear my breasts off, take off my underwear…take out my hair, break my arms, break my teeth' Courtney Love ,1995, talking about he way of purging her own death wish
'What if Kathleen Hanna goes and pees on his grave?' Courtney Love, 1995, talking about why she would not bury Kurt's ashes is a public place
'I can't hit anybody in Grant County (where she punched Kathleen Hanna at Lala) but I could clock her again in Seattle!' Courtney Love, 1995, clarifying her interpretation of the courts ruling on Hanna
'You know what, Kurt did not write our album, but O.j. Simpson did!' Courtney Love, 1995 being sarcastic to rumors she and hole did not write 'live through this'
'Do you think I sleep?!! I married a suicidal man!' Courtney Love, 1995, when ask about why her eyes were so 'droopy'
'Here's this bad mother. She deserves to have her baby taken away! Lynn is not my social worker! I have a drug history, but I it was not extensive. I told her I did Precodan, and back in Portland I did heroin for a couple of months.' Courtney Love 1994, talking about the 'Vanity fair' Article and Picture of herself that she was appalled at.
"I was really quite pretty until I was 11 or 12, which I think the back of "Live Through This" shows. I sort of looked like Eddie Vedder. I was the last girl on the planet with tits. I was the girl that would never hit puberty. I forever looked like I was seven. And then I got ugly; I was ugly until I was 25. But back then, I was usually one of the most attractive people in the room, except in an unusual way. Still I knew what I had, and I worked the fuck out of it, and so when it was gone I really missed it. I really resented puberty for that. It took away my beauty."--Courtney, 1995.
"There were all these hairy, wangly-ass hippies in our house. We had this huge mansion in Marcola, Oregon, and all these hippies are doing Gestalt therapy, running around the swimming pool naked, screaming. My mom was also adamant about a gender-free household: no dresses, no patent leather shoes, no canopy beds, nothing."--Courtney, 1995.
"I would love to write a couple of great rock songs in my life, like Chrissie Hynde did. She's really the only person of my gender who I find completely accomplished, because as much as I love Patti Smith, she didn't write her own music."--Courtney, 1993.
"I very rarely write about one theme or one subject. I end up getting bored with that theme and write something else halfway through the rest of the song, and finish the song with a different idea."--Courtney, 1994.
"I might lie a lot, but never in my lyrics."--Courtney, 1995.
"How's that for sick."--Courtney, reflecting on the sad irony in the choice of the title of Hole's album ("Live Through This") in the wake of Kurt's suicide.
"I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the best."--Courtney
"Kurt and I couldn't collaborate until I proved myself. Then we could do whatever the fuck we want. I'm not going to be seen as Yoko. She was an avant-garde artist. At the time she didn't have a chance anyway, but she shouldn't have used her husband's power to help herself. I've always tried to stay away from that...I think it's very baby boomer to put me in the position of Sid and Nancy or John and Yoko, because we were neither. We were definately our own couple."--Courtney, 1995.
"He had a Thurston quality about him. he was tall, skinny, blond. He dressed pretty cool, and he knew who Sonic Youth were."--Courtney, on why she hired Eric Erlandson as Hole's guitarist.
"Kurt was very depressed. He tried things like Prozac but opiates were what made him feel better."--Courtney, 1994.
"In the hospital he almost died. The dealer said she'd never seen someone so dead. I said, 'Why didn't you get a nurse? There are nurses all over the place.'"--Courtney, 1994.
"Kathleen Hanna was my husband's worst enemy in the world; someone who would stop at nothing to aggravate us. Funny that they refer to her as being a band. She's not really in a band. Bikini Kill don't really play and they don't really write songs. She's a political activist who took a bunch of women's studies classes."--Courtney, 1994.
"I fucking hate you!! You are so un punk!! Fuck you I fucking hopoe you Fucking die!! fuck you!! suck my dick!!! why can't the jocks and the fucking grungers get along??!! I mean I am friends with Matt Damon!!! so fuck you!!!"-Courtney Love 99 at a show speaking to a corp. fan beating on young girls
