Editing Courtney Love (section)

===Influences===
Love has been candid about her diverse musical influences, the earliest being [[Patti Smith]], [[the Runaways]], and [[the Pretenders]], artists she discovered while in juvenile hall as a young teenager.{{sfn|Behind the Music|2010|loc=event occurs at 11:29}} As a child, her first exposure to music was records that her parents received each month through [[Columbia House|Columbia Record Club]].<ref name=firsttime>{{cite interview|orig-year=2014|interviewer=[[Matt Everitt]]|last=Love|first=Courtney|title=The First Time With... Courtney Love|publisher=[[BBC Radio 6]]|date=January 24, 2018|volume=8|issue=1}}</ref> The first record Love owned was [[Leonard Cohen]]'s ''[[Songs of Leonard Cohen]]'' (1967), which she obtained from her mother: "He was so lyric-conscious and morbid, and I was a pretty morbid kid", she recalled.<ref name=firsttime/> As a teenager, she named [[Flipper (band)|Flipper]], [[Kate Bush]], [[Soft Cell]], [[Joni Mitchell]], [[Laura Nyro]],{{sfn|Cooper|1994|p=42}} [[Lou Reed]], and [[Dead Kennedys]] among her favorite artists.{{sfn|Brite|1998|p=65}} While in Dublin at age fifteen, Love attended a [[Virgin Prunes]] concert, an event she credited as being a pivotal influence: "I had never seen so much sex, snarl, poetry, evil, restraint, grace, filth, raw power and the very essence of rock and roll", she recalled. "[I had seen] [[U2]] [who] gave me lashes of love and inspiration, and a few nights later the Virgin Prunes fucked{{en dash}}me{{en dash}}up."<ref name=atkinson>{{Cite news|newspaper=The Guardian|title=Gavin Friday: 'You can't be what you were'|date=March 25, 2010|author=Atkinson, Mike|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/mar/25/gavin-friday-virgin-prunes|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614071806/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/mar/25/gavin-friday-virgin-prunes|archive-date=June 14, 2018}}</ref> Decades later, in 2009, Love introduced the band's frontman [[Gavin Friday]] at a [[Carnegie Hall]] event, and performed a song with him.<ref name=atkinson/>

Though often associated with punk music, Love has noted that her most significant musical influences have been [[post-punk]] and [[new wave music|new wave]] artists.<ref name=bell>{{cite web|work=Vogue|title=Courtney Love Has a New Video Series Covering Her Favorite Songs|last=Bell|first=Keaton|date=June 2, 2021|url-status=live|archive-date=June 2, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602141210/https://www.vogue.com/article/courtney-love-bruises-of-roses|url=https://www.vogue.com/article/courtney-love-bruises-of-roses}}</ref> Commenting in 2021, Love said: {{blockquote|There's this idea of "Courtney is punk and stuck in 1995!" but that's not the case. I was more [influenced by] new wave or post-punk. My number one greatest song of all time is "[[Love Will Tear Us Apart]]" by [[Joy Division]], and I will take no fucking prisoners in that battle. But the band that affected me more than even Leonard Cohen and [[Bob Dylan]] was [[Echo & the Bunnymen|Echo and the Bunnymen]].<ref name=bell/>}} Over the years, Love has also named several other new wave and post-punk bands as influences, including [[the Smiths]],<ref name="loder">{{cite interview|last=Love|first=Courtney|interviewer=[[Kurt Loder]]|work=[[MTV]]|title=The Hole Story|date=September 1, 1994}}</ref> [[Siouxsie and the Banshees]],{{sfn|Love|2006|page=35}} [[Television (band)|Television]],{{sfn|Love|2006|page=35}} and [[Bauhaus (band)|Bauhaus]].<ref name="loder"/>

Love's diverse genre interests were illustrated in a 1991 interview with ''Flipside'', in which she stated: "There's a part of me that wants to have a [[grindcore]] band and another that wants to have a [[Raspberries (band)|Raspberries]]-type pop band."<ref name="first">{{cite journal|title=Hole|number=68|date=September 1990|journal=[[Flipside (fanzine)|Flipside]]|author=Al & Gus}}</ref> Discussing the abrasive sound of Hole's debut album, she said she felt she had to "catch up with all my hip peers who'd gone all indie on me, and who made fun of me for liking [[R.E.M. (band)|R.E.M.]] and The Smiths."{{sfn|Cooper|1994|p=42}} She has also embraced the influence of experimental artists and punk rock groups, including [[Sonic Youth]], [[Swans (band)|Swans]],<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Addicted to Noise|date=January 6, 1997|title=Swans Song|first=Howard|last=Wuelfing|quote=The group count the likes of Metallica's Kirk Hammet, Henry Rollins, Courtney Love and even Jeff Buckley among its admirers.}}</ref> [[Big Black]], [[Diamanda Galás]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.clashmusic.com/feature/ask-courtney-love|work=[[Clash (magazine)|Clash]]|last=Love|first=Courtney|title=Ask Courtney Love|date=February 23, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614050804/http://www.clashmusic.com/features/ask-courtney-love|archive-date=June 14, 2018}}</ref> the [[Germs (band)|Germs]], and [[the Stooges]].<ref>{{cite interview |last=Love |first=Courtney |interviewer=[[Howard Stern]] |title=The Howard Stern Show |publisher=Sirius XM Radio |date=May 30, 2013 |quote=The Stooges were a really big deal to me.}}</ref> While writing ''Celebrity Skin'', she drew influence from [[Neil Young]] and [[My Bloody Valentine (band)|My Bloody Valentine]].<ref name="int" /> She has also cited her contemporary [[PJ Harvey]] as an influence, saying: "The one rock star that makes me know I'm shit is Polly Harvey. I'm nothing next to the purity that she experiences."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.spin.com/2013/05/pj-harvey-rid-of-me-oral-history-steve-albini/|work=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]|title=Let It Bleed: The Oral History of PJ Harvey's 'Rid of Me'|author=Peisner, David|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150917055146/https://www.spin.com/2013/05/pj-harvey-rid-of-me-oral-history-steve-albini/|archive-date=September 17, 2015|date=May 2013}}</ref>

Literature and poetry have often been a major influence on her songwriting; Love said she had "always wanted to be a poet, but there was no money in it."<ref>{{cite interview|last=Love|first=Courtney|interviewer=[[Barbara Walters]]|title=Barbara Walters Presents: The 10 Most Fascinating People of 1995|publisher=ABC News|date=December 5, 1995}}</ref> She has named the works of [[T. S. Eliot]] and [[Charles Baudelaire]] as influential,<ref name="superrock">{{cite interview|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovgo4h9_lQc| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131016214837/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovgo4h9_lQc| archive-date=October 16, 2013 | url-status=dead|work=[[MTV]]|title=Courtney Love: Super Rock Interview|subject=Love, Courtney|year=1995|interviewer=Farry, Jackie}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://fleursdumal.org/audio/|work=Fleurs du Mal.org|title=Audio of Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180729135627/https://fleursdumal.org/audio/|archive-date=July 29, 2018}}</ref> and referenced works by [[Dante Gabriel Rossetti|Dante Rossetti]],{{Sfn|Latham|2003|p=2}} [[William Shakespeare]],<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FD4jKFVQOhMC&pg=PT6|journal=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]|title=Hole: Celebrity Skin|last=Clover|first=Joshua|series=Reviews|page=136|date=October 1998|volume=14|issue=10|via=Google Books|issn=0886-3032}}</ref> [[Rudyard Kipling]], and [[Anne Sexton]] in her lyrics.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]|date=October 1998|pages=90–100|title=The Love Issue|first=Phillip|last=Weiss|issn=0886-3032|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FD4jKFVQOhMC|via=Google Books|volume=14|issue=10}}</ref>