Courtney Love Quotes

Real girls aren't perfect, and perfect girls aren't real

I wish I was beautiful or at least wise, but I’m simply mad and violent.

Only dumb people are happy.

If you treat a girl like a dog, she is going to piss on you.

You want to live the dream? You do what you want on your terms.

You’ve got to be prepared for the names they are going to call you compared to your male peers… You will be a floozy and a slattern. He will be virile and a ladies’ man. You will be a freakshow, a retching wretch, a sloppy drunk. He will be charismatic, vainglorious, a ferocious drunk and Dionysian. You will be indiscriminate and desperate. He will be generous, tortured and driven.

No guy is worth your tears, but when you find that one that could be worth it, he shouldn't make you cry.

The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.

I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.

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.

Being offended is part of being in the real world.

I am not a woman. I am a force of nature.

Don't be bitter and mean 'couse you don’t fit in, it’s a GIFT. Look at you. you’ve got your individuality, you don’t have the herd instinct, you can read Neitzsche and understand it. Only dumb people are happy.

Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.

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.

Everything that becomes true starts with a manifesto

I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.

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 don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand.

You couldn’t pay me a billion dollars to take marijuana. I don’t really like coke anymore. I’m scared of ecstasy. The one drug I'd like to try one day is Ayahuasca, which should be mandatory for everybody. It’s apparently this crazy tea that gives you these intense hallucinations. Everyone who takes it sees a wise old black man who takes you on a wild journey. I’m not going to name names, but everyone who takes it sees the same black guy. I'm not kidding you. Everyone!

That which is imagined need never be lost.

On Sofia Coppola's 16th birthday, way back in 1987, I stole a lip gloss from her Sistine Chapel of a bedroom. Years later, I left a Chanel lip gloss in the reception of the Mercer Hotel for her. You know why? I believe that you've got to fix your karma.

I'm driven. I am. I'm driven for some reason. But I don't know where I'm going.

I do wish I ruled the world, I think it'd be a better place.

Cocaine is like really evil coffee.