Kurt and Courtney Love Cobain // 1993 // MTV Awards
"In 1993, I was in LA when Nirvana were filming the Heart Shaped Box video and attending the MTV awards. Courtney asked if I'd help look after Kurt for a few days. I took this polaroid of them with Ru Paul as they arrived at the awards. "
“Sinéad O'Connor was a sweet, wonderful woman. She came up and said hello to me. We sat in the sun, drank Pepsi-Cola, and told each other secrets. We talked a lot about her childhood and Kurt's childhood and all sorts of childhoods. She takes in the world with huge luminous eyes, the type you rarely see, utterly
lunar, laser beams to Ork.
Sinead and I would stay up all night in the bus watching really depressing movies. We watched Ryan's Daughter and two different adaptations of Wuthering Heights. She told me about Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw being sexually abused. When we were in Chicago she bought me a beautiful book that I really needed, and then she went down to her room, and when she was all alone she ran away to the airport.
She was pregnant, it was quite hot, and she was depressed. In her note that she left she said, "They can sue me. I don't care. I'II find another line of work," which I thought had a lot of integrity to it, to be honest.
I missed Sinéad.”
Courtney on touring with Sinead in July 1995.
Written in 1995.
Sinead told festival founder Perry Farrell that the reason she joined Lollapalooza was because of Hole and Courtney.
Rest in power you beautiful human.