“I've got a blister from touching everything I see
The abyss opens up
It steals everything from me”
"Softer, Softest"
Song lyrics, Live Through This (1994)
Courtney Michelle Love [3][4][5][6] es una cantautora, guitarrista, actriz y artista estadounidense. Prolífica en las escenas punk y grunge de los años noventa como la vocalista de Hole, Love atrajo atención pública por su presencia desinhibida en el escenario y sus letras confrontacionales, así como por su altamente conocido matrimonio con Kurt Cobain.[7][8]
Hija de la psicoterapeuta Linda Carroll y Hank Harrison, Love tuvo una vida temprana itinerante. Vivió en San Francisco y en Portland, Oregón, donde estuvo en una serie de bandas cortas antes de conseguir roles en películas del director de culto Alex Cox. Después de formar Hole en 1989, Love recibió atención considerable de la prensa de rock underground por el álbum debut de la banda Pretty on the Inside producido por Kim Gordon, mientras que su segundo lanzamiento Live Through This , le dio un alto perfil reconocido, recibiendo elogios críticos y yendo multiplatino.[9][10] En 1995, volvió al cine, ganando una Nominación al Golden Globe por su actuación en The People vs. Larry Flynt de Miloš Forman. Poco después, el tercer álbum de Hole, Celebrity Skin , fue nominado a múltiples Grammys.[11][12]
Love continuó su trabajo como actriz, apareciendo en películas de alto presupuesto como Man on the Moon y Trapped , antes de lanzar su primer álbum solista, America's Sweetheart .[13] En 2010, Love lanzó el álbum Nobody's Daughter utilizando el nombre Hole con una banda reformada.[14][15] Love estrenó dos sencillos como solista entre 2014 y 2015, y también volvió a la actuación, en las series Sons of Anarchy y Empire. Además de la música y el cine, Love ha tenido participación en el modelado y el arte visual y ha defendido a las víctimas de abuso sexual y violencia doméstica, investigación sobre el sida y los derechos LGBT. Tiene una hija, Frances Bean Cobain, de su matrimonio con Kurt Cobain.

“I've got a blister from touching everything I see
The abyss opens up
It steals everything from me”
"Softer, Softest"
Song lyrics, Live Through This (1994)
On her fans, Hit So Hard (2011) documentary
2006–2013
“Why do guys get to take off their shirts and we don't?”
Phoenix Theatre, Toronto, Ontario; September 1, 1994
Stage banter
“Oh, make me over
I'm all I wanna be
A walking study
In demonology”
"Celebrity Skin"
Song lyrics, Celebrity Skin (1998)
On being a woman in rock, The Independent https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/it-still-feels-like-love-courtneys-back-26344406.html (13 January 2008) <br class="br">2006–2013
On people she is attracted to, The Return of Courtney Love (2006)
2006–2013
"Nobody's Daughter"
Song lyrics, Nobody's Daughter (2010)
On punching Kathleen Hanna backstage at Lollapalooza, interview with Nardwuar (5 July 1995)
1991–1995
“I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.”
On women playing rock music, quoted in 1991, from This is the Sound: The Best of Alternative Rock https://books.google.com/books?id=MdmBYULpTrAC&pg=PT72&lpg=PT72&dq=i+want+every+girl+in+the+world+to+pick+up+a+guitar+and+start+screaming&source=bl&ots=wGJk2wQvio&sig=becPFUbQgPjVPwe75eEIadx-kYg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiCxYu6lvrTAhXjilQKHeziAZM4ChDoAQg5MAU#v=onepage&q=i%20want%20every%20girl%20in%20the%20world%20to%20pick%20up%20a%20guitar%20and%20start%20screaming&f=false (2008), p. 71 <br class="br">1991–1995
"Never Go Hungry"
Song lyrics, Nobody's Daughter (2010)
"Pretty on the Inside"
Song lyrics, Pretty on the Inside (1991)
"Mrs. Jones"
Song lyrics, Pretty on the Inside (1991)
On her teenaged fans, interview with The Georgia Straight (1999)
1996–2005
On living in Seattle in the 1990s, The Seattle Times http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/courtney-love-lsquoit-was-war-the-time-after-kurt-diedrsquo/ (14 July 2013) <br class="br">2006–2013
"Pacific Coast Highway"
Song lyrics, Nobody's Daughter (2010)
On race and the music industry, 24 Hours of Love MTV2 Special (21 September 2005)
1996–2005
April 10, 1994 at Kurt Cobain's public memorial at Seattle Center's Flag Pavilion, Entertainment Weekly (April 22, 1994) http://ew.com/article/1994/04/22/remembering-kurt-cobain/ <br class="br">1991–1995
"Reasons to be Beautiful"
Song lyrics, Celebrity Skin (1998)
On being a working musician on the West Coast, in conversation with Lana Del Rey, Dazed http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/35578/1/lana-del-rey-courtney-love-lust-for-life (April 2017) <br class="br">2014–2017
On her Nichiren Buddhist chanting practice, The Guardian (29 December 2010)
2006–2013
"Life Despite God"
Song lyrics, America's Sweetheart (2004)
On the notion of "selling out" in the music industry, 24 Hours of Love MTV2 Special (21 September 2005)
1996–2005
“Crash and burn
All the stars explode tonight
How'd you get so desperate?
How'd you stay alive?”
"Malibu"
Song lyrics, Celebrity Skin (1998)
Explaining the racist politics of the history of cocaine; The Howard Stern Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXZ7Wwv1og0 (2005) <br class="br">1996–2005
“He shakes his dead rattle
Spittle on his bib
And I don't do the dishes
I throw them in the crib”
"Plump"
Song lyrics, Live Through This (1994)
"Doll Parts"
Song lyrics, Live Through This (1994)
On her marriage to Kurt Cobain, The Telegraph (3 April 2010)
2006–2013
“We choose convenience over individuality every time—every time.”
On Americans' consumption of popular music, 24 Hours of Love MTV2 Special (21 September 2005)
1996–2005