 - - - - - - - - - - - - - "Courtney is a very strong, crazy woman and I admire anybody who has made it that far with such a crazy background and I can relate." --- Rose McGowan "I thought she looked like Nancy Spungen. She looked like a classic punk rock chick. I did feel kind of attracted to her. Probably wanted to fuck her that night, but she left." --- Kurt Cobain on meeting Courtney for the first time. "She's the electric diva of bad girls; a cranky, eccentric, brilliant, pain in the butt." --- Unknown (about Courtney). "I grew up with Melissa, in Montreal. We went to high school together, we were actually in love, when we were young, but we never consummated, we were always too shy to get together. But I thought she was fascinating when I was a kid and I still think she's fascinating. So that was that connection. We lived together for a long time in L.A. right before we made the video, and Gwen (Stefani) was friends with the director Sophie Mueller, and Gwen very graciously let us use her house, that's her house that it's filmed in, just cuz, whatever, she's a sweet, sweet girl." --- Rufus Wainwright talking about Melissa's cameo in his video "April Fools". "We just happen to piss off all different kinds of people; espically Courtney does. She's a totally threatening women. She's totally smart and she's threatening. She speaks her mind, she tells too much of the truth. Even liberals don't like smart women." --- Kurt Cobain. "Courtney's a very singular person, and I'm glad she's around." --- Lee Ranaldo, Sonic Youth. "I think Hole's a hot fucking band... Eric is one of the best now-guitarists in town and Melissa and Patty are killer in a post-Piscean promise. Courtney can surely write and can surely sing/emote... I talk about her more than anything else in these posts because she is special. She knows I have hopeful and loving feelings towards her even though I think she has an impossible and continuing destructo vibe. Drugs make her (and just about anyone I've known confused/confusing and lousy to be around... she knows I know she's beautiful but chemical obliteration clouds the reward and the romance. She likes music for the musician - who is the hero (who she can be). And she wants buddhism - which is the worshipper worshipped. She can have all this without being crushed by inner and societal conflict. I see her happy, forgiven and pure. She's gonna have to believe in herself this way for the good of her own being and for that of Frances." --- Thurston Moore, Sonic Youth. "I like Courtney, but she's fucking bonkers." --- Mark Arm, Mudhoney. "Every freak has a mother. When I met Marilyn Manson I was struck by how nice he was. People are rarely as weird as you anticipate. Except for Courtney Love who reminded me of that mad snake in The Jungle Book." --- Boy George. "She's obviously interesting to people." --- Steve Malkmus, Pavement. "Courtney Love is the nightmare doll who comes to life to wreak revenge on her domesticators..." --- the magazine Village Voice. "I met her in Washington, where we both played a big radio show, and then when we went to Seattle to record a song for a film, we got apartments there and stayed for a few weeks. I rang up someone, a mutual friend, to get her number..... What did I learn from her? That it’s really good to soak up knowledge; that it’s good to strive to be erudite and articulate and culturally involved. It’s just like kindred spirits; I’ve always felt that with her." --- Gavin Rossdale, Bush. - - - - - - - - - - - - - |