{"id":29164,"date":"2021-07-09T22:00:33","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T22:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&p=29164"},"modified":"2021-07-09T22:00:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T22:00:33","slug":"five-questions-for-courtney-love","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/five-questions-for-courtney-love\/","title":{"rendered":"FIVE QUESTIONS FOR \u2026 Courtney Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have known Courtney Love – professionally and personally – for 26 years. I have interviewed her several times and have hung with her in New York City and Los Angeles and San Francisco and New Orleans and Salt Lake City and Provincetown and London and Hudson, New York, where I now live, as does her former Hole bandmate, Melissa Auf der Maur.\u00a0<\/span>I even took her as my date to the Vanity Fair<\/i> Oscar party one year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Courtney Love turned 57 years old today, July 9th. Happy birthday, Courtney.\u00a0Here are five timeless questions I once asked you. Oh, forget birthdays. You are timeless yourself.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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What do you think your reputation once was?<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>At times wildly inaccurate to the point it astonished me.\u00a0 And it still does.\u00a0 But there are parts of it that are and were applicable.\u00a0 I do think for myself. I am, I suppose, a provocateur.\u00a0 It\u2019s a painful thing, however, to be classified as entirely mad and bad and even dangerous to know when you\u2019re actually rather boring and maternal and empathetic.\u00a0 But the fact that I didn\u2019t use my sexuality foremost or my looks in my music career and instead let the rage be my calling card forged my reputation early on.<\/p>\n

What is your reputation now?<\/em><\/p>\n

Much more mellow.\u00a0 I can still shoot straight if I need to, though.\u00a0 I just can\u2019t suffer fools.\u00a0 I can\u2019t.\u00a0 But I\u2019ve won the big boys over by being a very good girl for as long as possible.\u00a0 I run from any controversy at all.\u00a0 If I even smell it, I\u2019m gone.\u00a0 I want no piece of that anymore.<\/p>\n

What do you want your reputation to be in the future?<\/em><\/p>\n

A hell of an actress and a great rock-and-roll front man\/woman.\u00a0 And to keep it simple.\u00a0 I also love fashion.\u00a0 I can\u2019t wait to design, and I hope that my designs speak to people.\u00a0 I also paint and draw.\u00a0 I love doing that.\u00a0 It\u2019s not a dilettante thing with me.\u00a0 I\u2019d love to be known as an artist with great conviction. So to put it simply, I want to be accountable, and I want to excel.<\/p>\n

Do you even worry about such a concept as \u201ca reputation\u201d?<\/em><\/p>\n

Oh, terribly.\u00a0 Not everyone knows I\u2019ve been off any hard drugs since 2003.\u00a0 I\u2019m not really a person who repeats my mistakes too many times once I\u2019ve learned my lesson.\u00a0 It\u2019s crucial – especially as an actor going back to acting – that my reputation as a nice person and reliable actress follows me.\u00a0 I have a lot more I could say on the matter, but if you have wealth and a controversial reputation, you\u2019re screwed.\u00a0 So I keep on the safe side of the road these days.\u00a0 I stick with the winners and the people who have survived and thrived from having been through an unreliable reputation of their own and fixed that notion – as I have done, and I continue to do.<\/p>\n

What was the most important thing to you when I met\u00a0 you over 20 years ago?<\/em><\/p>\n

World domination.\u00a0 And raising my beautiful daughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29575,"featured_media":29167,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[23,38,16],"yoast_head":"\nFIVE QUESTIONS FOR \u2026 Courtney Love - Grazia USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/five-questions-for-courtney-love\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FIVE QUESTIONS FOR \u2026 Courtney Love\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I have known Courtney Love – professionally and personally – for 26 years. 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