The Wit and Wisdom of Courtney Love

Courtney Love has said that she uses interviews as therapy. Does that mean we can charge her by the hour? by Kate Torgovnick


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“It’s all because I took a couple of pictures with my eyeliner smudged.” —on the origin of her fame

“I told myself, ‘I’m going into this level of anger beyond wretched and I’m going to just spew it out.’”—on writing Hole songs

“I could never have worked for Madonna, because she has a Napoleon thing going. I could never deal with a boss that has never been fat.” —on turning down Madonna’s offer to sign Hole to Maverick records

“I’m somehow considered accomplished because I nailed a rock star.”

“‘She keeps him locked in the closet and she doesn’t let him take phone calls, and everybody knows they’re sitting around doing smack.’ Please. I’m pregnant and it’d be my baby doing the smack. I am not stupid.” —on rumors about her and Kurt Cobain

“There are eight million ways til Tuesday it’s my fault. When Kurt ran away just before he died, I made a choice to do drugs instead of keeping up with my Buddhist chanting. Had I chanted, I know I could have kept him alive.”

“I was over the idea of romantic love long before I met Kurt. I had been a stripper and I had heard every line in the book. But Kurt got to me. I had four goddamn years of bliss, and most people don’t get 10 seconds of it.”

“Frances will not be fetishised. I’ll move to Montana if I have to. She is not going to be Lisa Marie Presley.”

“Why can’t they find better scripts for me? I mean, every script seems to have a stripper, a whore, or an addict in it—no stretch.”

“Some Hollywood people are cool, but mostly it’s just full of regular, driven, beautiful people who were popular in high school. It’s still prom for a lot of them.”

“My old nose is my real father’s nose. Why should I have the genes of someone I don’t even respect on my face?” —on her nose job

“She charges me $5 every time I say the ‘f’’ word. I really f---ing miss her.” —while Frances Bean was removed from her custody

“I’m sorry if my name is  linked with heroin. I was pretty cool before I did heroin and I’m pretty cool again now.” —during a stint of sobriety

“When I was skinny, I was on Court TV a lot.”

“Do you think the district attorney would have a BB gun up my ass if I was doing a movie? If you’re doing films, you’re bourgeois. But if you have the balls to be making music, you’re a vulgar idiot.”

“I had a plan: world domination. I’m not sure it worked very well.”

(Sources: The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Observer, The Chicago Sun-Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Times, Interview)

 

 

Kate Torgovnick is Dame's editor-at-large. Prior to that, she was a writer/editor at Jane Magazine and her articles have also appeared in the New York Times, Newsweek and Page Six Magazine. Her first book, Cheer!, will hit bookstore shelves in March 2008.
 

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