 - - - - - - - - - - - - - "She's like this perfection, this utter purity that's uncorrupted by anything. And if somebody were to fuck with my child, I would not hesitate to kill them." --- Courtney Love speaking about Frances "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." --- Courtney Love speaking about leaving her mark "Every night I've been sleeping with his mother, and I wake up in the morning and think it's him because his body's sort of the same." --- Courtney Love a few days after Kurt's death, reading his note to his fans "You can't please everyone. I don't care if I get criticized. I don't give a shit if I get a bad review. I don't care if people say I'm a bitch or obnoxious, 'cos I am." --- Courtney Love in 1992 "When my husband was sitting in the studio I could, 'cos I knew where he was, so I didn't have to worry about him. But the worry factor was so much there for me ... Kurt's vocals are on every track, practically, but they're buried. He just came to show me some harmonies then it was, well, keep some of mine..." --- Courtney Love about not being able to give the making of LTT her full attention "I like there to be some testosterone in rock, and it's like I'm the one in the dress who has to provide it!" --- Courtney Love "I think Courtney's one of the most amazing guitar players out there. I mean, she has a really unique sense of rhythm, she plays really hard and actually I've learnt alot from her as a guitarist" --- Eric Erlandson "'Live Through This' was just me on three gears, not four. Because my fourth gear was sucked up through drugs, a relationship. I did not have a fourth gear to work with. The purity was not completely there. It was like where in school I would cram -- not do my homework. If I did it, I know I'd get an A. I'd cram and get a B or a B+. I never did that extra footwork for the A. This record was a B-. And I knew that was enough to get by in terms of my peers." --- Courtney Love about making LTT "I'm driven. I am. I'm driven for some reason. But I don't know where I'm going." --- Courtney Love in 1992 "If you want to ask about my drug problem, go ask my big, fat, smart, ten pound daughter, she'll answer any questions you have about it." --- Courtney Love in 1992 "He's not going to get away from me that easily. I'll follow him through hell." --- Courtney Love after Kurt's suicide attempt. "Remember, if you write anything nasty about me, I'll come around and blow up your toilet." --- Courtney Love in 1995 "I might lie a lot, but never in my lyrics." --- Courtney Love in 1995 "Somebody wrote "How can she rock in a Versace gown?" Well easy, let me show you." --- Courtney Love in 1997 "I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the best." --- Courtney Love "I like all the angels around because they protect me and my daughter. I mean, her Dad's an angel." --- Courtney Love "I'm a survivor, at least that's what everyone tells me." --- Courtney Love "I don't mean to be a diva, but some mornings you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand." --- Courtney Love "He had to go be an angel." --- Courtney Love to Frances on where Kurt was "Without the band, I'd be unable to write and play music. I don't mind being the famous idiot cause it's funny, it's like being a drag queen. But the band is important to me. And I'm not solid enough to be a dictator. Eric and I are very close. He was in the room when I gave birth to Frances - he's even the only one who didn't faint. Eric holds the band together, I need him. Hearing him play the guitar is enough to understand how important he is for the band." --- Courtney Love "I'm not psychic, but my lyrics are." --- Courtney Love in 1994/1995 "My name's Courtney, shake my damn hand." --- Courtney Love at some awards show "What I wanted to capture is the look on a woman's face as she's being crowned, the sort of, ecstatic, blue-eyeliner running, kind of 'I, I am.. I won! I won! I have hemorrhoid cream under my eyes and adhesive tape on my butt and I had to scratch and claw and fuck my way, but I won Ms. Congeniality' and that's the essence of sickness in this culture that I'd like to capture." --- Courtney Love in 93-94, speaking about the LTT cover "I think we're both really similar in terms of believing in fate and destiny and the characters coming into your life being very significant as someone you know you're supposed to learn from. We value each other that way. We're both really community minded, family oriented. Maybe because we're ladies, I don't know, but we share an appreciation of working together and helping change the face of women in rock. I know we're changing something." --- Melissa Auf der Maur talking about Courtney "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 don't know where that came from. So immature! He was like a little boy pulling pigtails. We definitely didn't take it too personally. He means no harm." --- Melissa Auf Der Maur responding to Marilyn Manson's insults "If you treat a girl like a dog, she is going to piss on you." --- Courtney Love "I listen to too many people. I'm only going to listen to my gut for the rest of my life." --- Courtney Love in 1994/1995 "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." -- Courtney Love "He got down on his knees and said "I'm worth 6 million. Will you marry me, bitch?"" --- Courtney Love about Kurt's purposal "She called me up and talked my ear off, and I was like "Who the hell was that?" We met at this coffee shop, and I saw her and I thought "Oh, God. Oh, no, What am I getting myself into?" She grabbed me and started talking, and she's like "I know your the right one". and I hadn't even opened my mouth yet." --- Eric Erlandson describing his first encounter with Courtney "You can't please everyone. I don't care if I get criticized. I don't give a shit if I get a bad review. I don't care if people say I'm a bitch or obnoxious, 'cuz I am." --- Courtney Love "That which is imagined need never be lost." --- Courtney Love, 1998/1999 "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." --- Courtney Love in 1999 "We have the nicest asses in rock." --- Samantha Maloney, 1999 "All I have to do is lick my finger, stick it up in the air and shit sticks to it." --- Courtney Love "All of my life I wanted be something. I guess now that I am, I don't want to be." --- Kristen Pfaff "If you (the press) lie about us, I will hit you, Kurt will shoot you, and we both will sue." --- Courtney Love "Frances will not be fetishized. Over my dead body... I'll move to Montana if I have to, not to be the martyr mother, but if it came to it, I'd give it all up." --- Courtney Love, 1998 "I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean empathy, hedonism, a libertarianism." --- Courtney Love "Don't be bitter and mean because you don't fit in, it's a GIFT, you don't have the herd instinct. You can read Neichtze and understand it. Only dumb people are happy." --- Courtney Love "I always tell people she's a pussycat, but no one believes me." --- Eric Erlandson on Courtney Love "Don't date the captain of the football team, be the captain of the football team." --- Courtney Love "No guy is worth your tears, but when you find that one that could be worth it, he shouldn't make you cry." --- Courtney Love "I like to sleep with guys, not to work with them. I wanted to have an all-female band. When I was looking for a guitarrist, the ad I put on said, 'women preferred'. But then Eric was the first to answer, and he had this great technique. I wanted him to have breasts, but that's okay." --- Courtney Love "We're all little misfits." --- Eric Erlandson, 1999 "I'm so proud of myself. I worked with anger, with the darkest things in the world." --- Courtney Love "The road of rock and roll (much like life) is littered with broken dreams and death. And it's our job to overcome these and to survive." --- Courtney Love "I have a deathly fear of mediocrity and that nips at my heels and gets me into a lot of trouble." --- Courtney Love "I found my inner bitch and ran with her." --- Courtney Love "When I see 16 year-olds waiting for me, I just want to spank them and give them guitars and tell them to start bands. It's a bummer that girls have to respond to rock artists sexually instead of, like, 'wow, me too!'." --- Courtney Love "I'm against all these bands coming back - Sex Pistols - you just destroy everything that's cool about you. Once you're in a band and you die, stay dead." --- Eric Erlandson "I think it's very baby boomer to put me and Kurt in the position of Sid and Nancy or John and Yoko because we were neither. We were definitely our own people." --- Courtney Love "Our value system is to go away and do it until it's done, because we saw out parents half-finish the painting one too many times." --- Courtney Love "I lived out my little rock'n'roll fantasy, I just wish I hadn't gotten into so much trouble for it." --- Courtney Love "Quote Reznor in the same sentence as my husband and I'll find you at your fucking community college and hack your grades to F, OK?." --- Courtney Love "Get back to me when you've looked horror in the face, farm boy." --- Courtney Love on Trent Reznor's famous angst "There are songs about abortions, about slashing your arms with razors, about imagining your own funeral in New Orleans, about rock stars cheating on their wives, sex." --- Courtney Love talking about new songs, in late 1995 "I know exactly how I want it to sound: I built it in my mind, like a circle. The top end I want to be warm, Crazy Horse... the middle strip is really Alan Moulder, with strong song- writing... the bottom part I want to be the gnarliest - Black Sabbath meets sampling... deep and hard." --- Courtney Love talking about the sound of the new songs, in late 1995 "He's an intensly weird, good, guitarist, and he's the glue that has kept me together." --- Courtney Love on Eric "I don't think you can ever do too much. Life would be so boring if you didn't have these, like, holes to fall into and climb out of. I want to do everything. I just want everything. I don't think you can ever have too much." --- Courtney Love "I have no intention of dying young and being some stinking rock'n'roll person." --- Courtney Love, before Kurt's death "I wish people would just like me for what I am, the singer in an OK new wave band." --- Courtney Love, before Kurt's death "To me, 'selling out' means everyone bought a ticket." --- Courtney Love, on Australian TV in January 1999 "When I don't know what to do, I just take out my R.E.M. rulebook." --- Courtney Love, on Australian TV in January 1999 "Milos reserves judgement and I learned a lot from his lack of cynicism. He's like a child and he so amazingly good and kind to me and allowed me to grow and really nurtured me. I wish I had a dad like that." --- Courtney Love on Milos Foreman (director of The People vs. Larry Flynt) in 1997 "Making good records tastes good in your mouh. And when that record sells, it tastes even better." --- Courtney Love "My daughter is an angel on earth, so when I see her it all goes away. I see her and - phew! - all that dark goes away pretty much." --- Courtney Love in 1997 "The Cranberries get on my tits. My name for The Cranberries is the Fucking Alarm." --- Courtney Love in 1997 - - - - - - - - - - - - - |