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born 1964 United States
Courtney Michelle Love (born 9 July 1964) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actress, and writer. She was the frontwoman of the former alternative rock band Hole.
United States Actresses Authors Feminists Guitarists Also known as: Courtney Love Cobain
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I'm all for putting money back into the black community, who white people have been stealing from for years.
I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.
Don’t eat cheese. There are a million things to eat that are not cheese.
LA is easier. People have garages. And then as you go up the coast, in Washington and Oregon people have bigger houses and bigger garages, and people have parents.
On three, I want you to say "bitch" really loud. One, two, three, "bitch!"
Why do guys get to take off their shirts and we don't?
My thing is 'Don't fuck with me.' In real life, real real life, I'm supersensitive, but people tend to think I'm not vulnerable because I don't act vulnerable.
I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist. But let me tell you something. Gloria Steinem never helped me out; Larry Flynt did.
I didn't know it was such a guy's job. It's like playing football in high heels and lipstick; no wonder it smears.
Is this the anti-gay state? Aren't you the people that voted on the anti-gay thing?
If I fuckin' die without having written two, three, or four brilliant rock songs... I don't know why I lived my life.
I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me.
When I post, I forget I’m famous. It’s a really bad thing.
America's Sweetheart was my one true piece of shit. It has no cohesive thread. I just hate it.
The American male runs half of the global world and grows up on rock music from day one. If you can alter the psyche of someone who's growing up to be a rapist or a total misogynist, you're creating values and instead of making the void bigger, you're making it smaller.
Writing songs has a lot to do with your sexuality. I danced for awhile and just being around that made me realize what people use. And if you grow up blessed with a certain beauty or a certain intelligence that enhances your beauty, you can get into a better position in life.
I don't know why I ever succumbed to any of it... [but] I liked the rush of going under. It's such a high—it's like dying. I die, but then I come out prettier.
I’ve protected it [the Nirvana catalogue] from everything from Kentucky Fried Chicken commercials to movies about board games. We’ve been offered $6 million for 18 seconds of one Nirvana song and I turned it down.
When my looks are shot—which I reckon will be in about six years—I’ll have plastic surgery here on my chin, and they can pull my cheeks back, but I’m not ready for that. And because of the smoking, the mouth is starting to give.
My brother, Toby, is six-foot-six, [and] he [went to] Vassar; my other brother, Brown; my sister, without one penny from me or my [step]dad, NYU Law, number one in her class—Jesus, it's such a functional family, I don't know where I came from.
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