Courtney Love
Courtney Love
Courtney Michelle Loveis an American musician, actress, and visual artist. Prolific in the punk and grunge scenes of the 1990s, Love's career has spanned over four decades. She became a fixture in alternative music as the frontwoman of Hole, drawing public attention for her uninhibited stage presence and confrontational lyrics, as well as her highly publicized personal life following her marriage to Kurt Cobain...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth9 July 1964
CitySan Francisco, CA
CountryUnited States of America
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.
The minute I got skinny and got a nose job and became photogenic, and all of a sudden I had a bidding war, and every boy I ever wanted, wanted me.
I want to be the girl with the most cake.
The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.
The American public really does have a death wish for me. They want me to die. I'm not going to die.
I've been screwed by as many women as I have by men, in terms of lawyers. But lawyers don't count. If you take lawyers out of the equation, you have a more fair playing field. There is a sisterhood.
Own what you are, and I mean whether that's art, or whether that's fashion, or whether that's music, or whether that's acting, or whether that's politics, or whether that's literature; it's own what you are, and grab it, and, you know, be as prolific as possible.
I keep social with everyone because I want to know what's going on at every level. At the same time, if I'm not alone a certain amount of time per day then I'll go nuts, because I can't write and I can't think. I can't deal with people all the time. I like being alone. I'm a bit of a cat lady in that way.
To find your female scream and not withhold is so liberating. You can do anything then. It’s like you can fly. It gives you superpowers.
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.
In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.
I'm a major feminist. There's a real politic in life, where I've been in rooms where real decisions are made, and it's a lot of powerful white men. There are women in those rooms, but not as many as there should be.
But I always wound up being the damn John, when I wanted to be the Paul.
You need to write on your own and produce your own life.