Courtney Love
Birthday: 9 July 1964, San Francisco, California, USA
Birth Name: Courtney Michelle Harrison
Height: 174 cm
The daughter of Grateful Dead devotee and first manager Hank Harrison and psychotherapist Linda Caroll, Courtney Love was born Courtney Michelle Harrison in San Francisco, California in 1964. Love spe ...Show More
"Being famous is just like being in high school. But, I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I Show more
"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. And plenty of you are out there in the smoker shed too. When it comes to rock 'n' roll, it's just like high school" (From an interview in the August 2004 Seventeen magazine). Hide
[on clinging to all of her late husband's belongings in 2007] "My house is like a mausoleum. My daug Show more
[on clinging to all of her late husband's belongings in 2007] "My house is like a mausoleum. My daughter doesn't need to inherit a giant hefty bag full of flannel shirts....A sweater, a guitar and the lyrics to 'Teen Spirit'--that's what my daughter gets. And the rest of it we'll just sell." Hide
"Cocaine is like really evil coffee." (What she told her daughter about drugs.)
"Cocaine is like really evil coffee." (What she told her daughter about drugs.)
Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind Show more
Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb. Hide
I wanted to be something when I grew up, and I grew up in the '70s. What was I gonna be, a movie sta Show more
I wanted to be something when I grew up, and I grew up in the '70s. What was I gonna be, a movie star? Movie stars say other people's words. A writer- I'm undisciplined. A rock star- that's what I wanted to be when I was a kid. Hide
[commenting on her brief relationship with Trent Reznor] "Trent and I had this torrid whatever-you-w Show more
[commenting on her brief relationship with Trent Reznor] "Trent and I had this torrid whatever-you-want-to-call-it...he said in "Details" that my alleged pregnancy would have to be immaculate conception, so I said in "Spin" 'Don't call your band "Nine Inch Nails" if you have a three inch one!' My band is called "Hole." It's not called "big hole," it's not called "little hole," it's not called "flapping nony", it's not called "teeny rosebud", it's not called "Barbie pussy." It's called "Hole."" Hide
I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the b Show more
I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the best. Hide
[on her music career with Hole] "I said this band is going to be ten times bigger than Sonic Youth b Show more
[on her music career with Hole] "I said this band is going to be ten times bigger than Sonic Youth but not as big as Jane's Addiction. What was the but for?! It's like a fucking curse! The gods were listening that day! I could have said 'this band will be ten times bigger than Sonic Youth and The Beatles' and that's where we'd be right now." Hide
"I'm not going to hurt anybody other than that dick who keeps writing songs about me" --about Dave G Show more
"I'm not going to hurt anybody other than that dick who keeps writing songs about me" --about Dave Grohl in a Howard Stern interview. Hide
"Knowing me, I'd probably end up at a bar, asking some guy to get me another martini. Still bleachin Show more
"Knowing me, I'd probably end up at a bar, asking some guy to get me another martini. Still bleaching my hair at 59." (her response to what she thinks she'll be like when she's old.) Hide
If I write a song about being a teenage prostitute, that doesn't mean that I was a teenage prostitut Show more
If I write a song about being a teenage prostitute, that doesn't mean that I was a teenage prostitute, any more than it means Kurt raped Polly. Hide
How can any woman be the female Jim Morrison? What Jim Morrison was was a sexual object. Women - we Show more
How can any woman be the female Jim Morrison? What Jim Morrison was was a sexual object. Women - we invented rock and roll, and sexualized men so that we could go and scream at these unattainable football captains. Hide
I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what The Velvet Underground was to music- it's like, 80 thousand r Show more
I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what The Velvet Underground was to music- it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band. Hide
I like to mentor young women and encourage them to play music. It's like teaching someone to play a Show more
I like to mentor young women and encourage them to play music. It's like teaching someone to play a sport; it doesn't matter if they grow up to be a professional athlete. It is a skillset you can use for the rest of your life and it keeps people out of trouble. Every girl should know how to play three chords on a guitar; it should be mandatory. It will keep them out of trouble, and they'll get any guy they want [laughs]. Hide
[2009] I'm sober. I'm fabulous. I have a few character defects, but I'm not dishonorable and I'm not Show more
[2009] I'm sober. I'm fabulous. I have a few character defects, but I'm not dishonorable and I'm not a liar. I have a good heart...I've never claimed to be anyone's role model. I'm not Mother Teresa. Hide
"You're no one in the rock industry unless you've feuded with me or slept with Winona Ryder.
"You're no one in the rock industry unless you've feuded with me or slept with Winona Ryder.
[on her father] He managed the Grateful Dead for five seconds, and he was an amateur acid-maker.
[on her father] He managed the Grateful Dead for five seconds, and he was an amateur acid-maker.
[on the changing state of the music industry] It's a radical time for musicians, a really revolution Show more
[on the changing state of the music industry] 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. Hide
[Commenting to NME on the hypocritically differing attitudes towards male and female rockstars]- You Show more
[Commenting to NME on the hypocritically differing attitudes towards male and female rockstars]- 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. Hide
There's a kind of appeal in vulnerability, and there's an appeal in sort of a quantum vulnerability, Show more
There's a kind of appeal in vulnerability, and there's an appeal in sort of a quantum vulnerability, where you really are exposing something. It's like, a "haha, what are you gonna do?" kind of thing. "Yeah, come here, screw with me, I'm only, like, hanging upside down on a cross." Hide
[on Hole's successful second album, Live Through This (1994)] "It was so easy to make that I get sur Show more
[on Hole's successful second album, Live Through This (1994)] "It was so easy to make that I get surprised by the effect it had on people. But, you know, all good rock is easy. The riffs just came, and they were fresh from chords that I'd learned from [Billy] Corgan and Kurt [Cobain]. I wrote 'Doll Parts' in five minutes." Hide
If you treat a girl like a dog, she's going to piss on you.
If you treat a girl like a dog, she's going to piss on you.
I'm not a woman, I'm a force of nature.
I'm not a woman, I'm a force of nature.
I surrounded myself with women when I was growing up because I had this horrible psycho father. Now Show more
I surrounded myself with women when I was growing up because I had this horrible psycho father. Now I'm trying to really appreciate and like men more. Hide
[on Kathleen Hanna] I still don't like her. She bugs me. Kathleen Hanna runs that ship [her relation Show more
[on Kathleen Hanna] I still don't like her. She bugs me. Kathleen Hanna runs that ship [her relationship with Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz] in a way that is far more Yoko than I would be. I envision her being in a decked-out loft with a little corner for a desk that look like it belongs in a poor person's East Village apartment, with her battered-women's stuff and her Ms. magazines and all her communication with leading feminists. Hide
Courtney Love's FILMOGRAPHY
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Courtney Love'S roles
Elle Dallas
Elle Dallas
Althea Leasure Flynt
Kitty Menendez
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