I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand.
It's a radical time for musicians, a really revolutionary time, and I believe revolutions 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.
I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.
I'm not a woman, I'm a force of nature.
Cocaine is like really evil coffee.
It's the new LSD - Lead Singer's Drug. I know three lead singers doing Vicodin right now.
I'm not going to hurt anybody other than that dick who keeps writing songs about me.
He was so gorgeous... Kurt. I don't know how I got lucky that way.
Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. in fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb.
Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.
It's not my job to articulate female rage... I think it's more my job to craft songs really well because I don't see a lot of rock women doing it.
It's weird not to have sold hundreds of records, but have people's grandmas know who you are.
People seem to have this really big fantasy that me and my husband should just OD and die. I'm sorry, but it's just not gonna happen.
If somebody were to hurt or deride or in any way fuck with my child, I would not hesitate to kill them.
I saw this little riot grrl in Spin who was holding a little magazine called Princess. She's 15, but everything in her little riot grrl world - like Hello Kitty products - is telling her to act like she's seven. That's not feminism, it's cultural anorexia.
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.
I do wish I ruled the world - I think it'd be a better place.
I think Kurt has a better singing voice than I do, but I know I'm a better lyricist.
Feminism is a dirty word over here because your feminists are so ugly. Every picture I saw of those women at the nuclear plants, they were not pretty. So I didn't want to be associated with feminism because I thought it would make me ugly.
It's funny, all the lawyers and the doctors are taking up all the Rock Star money.
When I was a kid growing up, the whole idea was to have a band, more like the Knack, where you couldn't tell one from the other. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar and find a singer.
I had to work at a topless bar in Guam. I went to Guam to pout because I didn't get the part of Nancy Spungen in Alex Cox's film, Sid & Nancy.
Since my persona is so demonised and so huge and so not what I'm about, I can practically do anything I want behind that persona, artistically. That's kind of a gift and a positive thing.
I want to create a record that's really good to fuck to. What does it sound like when the sperm meets the egg? What is the sound of a death rattle? I want the sound of the agony of heroin withdrawal.
I have written for ever. Written poetry in every coffee diner in America. In 1987 my diaries changed and they got cool. Before then they were really humiliating and embarrassing, but I can't bring myself to burn them. Courtney Love