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🇺🇸Courtney Love

Music

b. 1964

"The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes."

"Somerset Maugham refers more than once to the pleasure of the Malayan morning - papaya and eggs and bacon and strong British tea taken while the air is cool and the sun awaits its sudden thrust into the green land...."

"I look so totally artificial, but I’ve always been the simplest person in the world."

"Even when I was little, I knew I was meant to perform. I would watch specials on TV or videos of Janet or Whitney, and I would start crying because I was like 'I want that so bad'."

"We're Nirvana and we really don't particularly like heavy metal."

"I wrote and recorded music for many years, thinking I was only pleasing myself. The fact that so many people have appreciated the music, makes my life incredibly rewarding and full."

"It's more like giving people a taste of what the tour will be like. It's getting people to hear the music to a different sound … We remixed some of the songs so they sound totally different. It's really energetic."

"Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it… it says "Chicken... by the Sea."

"I think cooking completes you as a woman. … I woke up one morning and said, I can't do this to myself anymore. I didn't feel good. I was constipated all the time. … I used to live to eat. Now I eat to live."

"I'm a songwriter but she has her songs written for her... She must think it's her fucking lucky day... It's not like she's singing old songs like Jamie , she's singing shit new songs that her manager writes for her."

"A person who's a bitch would seem to be mean for no reason. I'm not a mean person. Maybe I'm rude without being aware of it — that's possible."

"I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic."

"It can take up to 100 chinchillas to make one coat and Jennifer Lopez has one made of 80 of them, all killed by electrocution or having their necks snapped. … Besides, wearing fur makes you look like an old woman!"

"On the whole, I'm a positive, skippity-la-la person but I love the dark side of music and I will always want to explore that. It's a positive-sounding album but there's stuff underneath for sure."

"We are blessed and sustained by what is not said"

"I'm alright. I love you. I love my life. I'm always close to you."

"I think of that time a lot…It’s part of my blood, my bones, all the liquid in my body. I’ve just taken him in so he’s in my core."

"Natalie Merchant at the Ectophile's Guide to Good Music"

"I actually go, 'Wow! How lucky can a girl get?"

"…I'm always looking for extremes in things. That's what I try to do in my music, push something as far as you can take it. Until it becomes almost unacceptable."

"People didn’t have a clue I was Mexican unless they grew up with me…I heard plenty of it…I’d straighten them out fast."

"“One bloke approached an entire interview as if I was trying to be a jazz musician. I’ve never said that. I’ve never even tried it. And if we did we’d do a darn sight better job than we are doing now."

"I came from a family where my people didn't like rhythm and blues. Bing Crosby - "Pennies from Heaven" - Ella Fitzgerald, was all I heard."

"Love me or leave me, baby. Don't lead me on, with loving like yours? Believe me, I'm better off. I"m better off alone."

"One more thing I can give you, one more thing, would you give me one more night and one less regret in my life."

"Encyclopedia of Popular Music Entry on Mann"

"Blame Canada" by Michael Alan Goldberg, SF Weekly"

🇺🇸St. Vincent (musician)

Music

b. 1982

"I'm a debut artist, I'm not established — nobody would write about it if they didn't like it. So I'm waiting for the next album for the backlash."

"Sophie B. Hawkins at the Internet Movie Database"

"It's just about a lady who's a goddess of steeds and a maker of birds."

"Intimacy—real honest intimacy—is one of the most radical things you can do right now. It’s like an endangered species to connect to your feelings and actually be present…"

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