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
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.
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.
But let me tell you something. Gloria Steinem never helped me out; Larry Flynt did.
I cannot exist as a solo artist.
Warren Beatty took an interest in my career at one point.
Movie stars are supposed to be healthy. They're kept happy and nutritionally together.
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'm offended every time I see George Bush on TV!
I'm a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan.