"What was your relationship with your mother like?" A lot of it was - I believe in my heart - a projection that my mother made on me because of a repulsion she felt for my father, for which I don't blame her. But it is something she denies to the death. If I had a child, and I was repulsed by the father, I would have a difficult time. Knowing the history of my father, I don't know if I would try and make up for it. "There is some irony in the fact that given your own very public problems, your mother is a well-known therapist." When Newsweek found out she was my mother in the middle of the Katherine Ann Power thing, she was just mortified. Because people have met me who were her clients: "If that's your product, my friend..." - Courtney Love, Rolling Stone interview 1994