Riot Incorporated: Inside the Turbulent Mind and Empire of Courtney Love

LOVE: Do you have a price where you feel, there's something that you want so badly, that you...I mean, the devil obviously (and I'm not a Christian by any means), but the forces of evil in this world aren't really that interested in people who would sell out on a dime, you know what I mean? As far as the money stuff goes, you know, l know it's Martian to you, and I understand that, but you have to understand that it's very real to me. And, it's just like, it's not some strange paranoid nut job weirdness. I'm very, very sane, I'm very, very aware of who I am and where I am. You know, I saw this big pile of my history. I was reminded of where I'd been, but I don't care about the past. I just care about moving forward and into a solution. You opened up this conversation asking me about my persona: Probably, the reason I don't keep all of this stuff around, and I see it and I just stuff it in a vase, is because, I can choose my own persona at this point, and I think that's a great, great privilege. And, I'm very grateful for it.

What's funny about the Jewish thing is that I did this Barbara Walters special, and I had to watch that thing on TV, and that's the last time I ever did drugs when I was watching that thing. Cause it Freaked. Me. Out. And, you know, I never watched Barbara Walters before...But, I remember telling her that I was Jewish, and I was really into it...and, she looked at me funny, and I remember she looked at me funny in the moment, and…being in Britain about half the year, I tend to spend about half the year there, because I really like it there, um, you know, the way that the people who are Jewish, you know, in LA? Which is completely weird to me, I mean, I grew up on the West Coast, in New Zealand, and boarding school in England, and in juvenile hall. So, what the fuck do I know? But, at the same time, you know, I came from an insanely liberal background. I mean, so insane that it's insane. You know what I mean? I mean living in a teepee is no fun. And it's having your father, you know, having his custody removed from me completely is no fun, and having his girlfriend testify at your custody trial, and then having her be one of the Manson family, you know, that's kind of scary, too. All this adoption, I don't know what the fuck I am. I'm fucking Scottish, you know? It's like, is that my grandfather, or is that my grandfather? What the fuck, you know, what's up with all that? I don't know what the fuck I am. I am definitely an underdog though, so that puts me in the Tribe….So, Ms. Bookatz, I hope you got some good stuff out of this.

Bookatz: I got great stuff. I think you're awesome.

LOVE: I just have this huge mouth, and then I get all regretful and remorseful. I just wait till the record comes out, and then I can be as obnoxious as I want. You know, I read this guy from Blackbook is like: On. My. Ass. Like, the number one guy from Blackbook is on my ass to be in their magazine, and I don't really want to do it, and you know, I'm doing this [Heeb] because I read about it and it's really funny...This guy interviewed me for the Advocate before Kurt died, and I was reading it, and I was like, oh my God, I was like so fearlessly hysterical. You know, I wonder if I'm the same way...or I've been scarred, or if I've been damaged, or deformed, or you know...deformed I mean like a tree that grows up gnarly, you know what I mean? Like, I wonder if all this death and tragedy and shit has really fucked with me. I can't say I know. You know? Why do you think I have two shrinks?...See, my heeb side is coming out.