Courtney Love recently told Rolling Stone magazine that she has been done with drugs and alcohol for a year and three months now and credits Buddhism with helping her get her life back on track.
She's also become a more responsible parent and spoke about selling part of Nirvana's music for $50 million dollars in order to take care of her daughter Frances Bean. She said: "Before that, I'd saved $4,000. We were almost ready to apply for food stamps."
"I sold 25 percent of the music to a guy named Larry Mestel who's been great, f***ing great," she said. "Some of his ideas are a little cheesy. The last thing we want is 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' selling Coca Cola. But if you look at my daughter, and that's who that music is for - that music is for her, ultimately - if it ends up having to be f***ing sugar water, that's what it ends up having to be.
"I pray to God it doesn't, and I don't think it'd be appropriate. But no one's looking to sell Nirvana songs to Coca-Cola, we're looking to the opposite - eco-friendly green cars, anti-Apartheid, you know all the things we value."
Courtney also revealed that she took LSD at age 4 ("I think my mind was freed") and that she and Kurt's daughter Frances are big Kelly Clarkson fans.
As for the Buddhism, she says: "I'm a Buddhist now and I chant every day. I chant for a long time. Some people that chant, I'm just going to out them, Orlando Bloom chants, Tina Turner, they do half an hour a day. But I was doing four and five hours a day sometimes. With smoke breaks!"
