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Are the songs and performance style of Bruises of Roses reflective of the musical direction for the new album you’re working on? 

Yes and no. I don’t make records a lot, so who knows when I’ll finish this next one. I have all these new songs, but I need four more to make an album, so I’m working on those. I haven’t made a record in 10 years, so every single song has to count, you know? But they’re all—and I’m just gonna say it—outrageously good. I’m finally able to reflect on what I want to make and who I wanna be to record stuff that’s up to my actual level. And I haven’t been up to my own level in a long time. I had to get into recovery for all sorts of stuff, but I finally feel like myself again. I’m fully here, fully embodied and in the moment, talking to you. And that wasn’t the case for many, many years. I’m having fun existing without having to use substances and learning to love music again. So I would say that’s the tone of the new music—but, you know, make it fashion.

Hole circa 1995. Left to right: bassist Melissa Auf der Maur, singer Courtney Love, guitarist Eric Erlandson and drummer Patty Schemel

Photo: Kevin Cummins

Last year you were set to perform at a Planned Parenthood benefit with Melissa Auf der Maur before it got postponed because of lockdown. What’s your relationship status with your former bandmates these days? 

We’re all really good friends, and Melissa and I are especially close—we talk every day. But Eric is kinda off the grid right now—I think he’s in Japan literally becoming a monk. I’m not even kidding. Melissa, Patty, and I think he’s become a monk or something on that level of asceticism.

Do you think there’ll ever be a proper Hole reunion? 

No, absolutely not. And you guys have gotta get over it. Our old manager Peter Mensch calls once a year to ask about a reunion: “Hey, just doing my thing I do every year with you and Jimmy Page [of Led Zeppelin].” And I’m so honored to be in that company, but it’s just not gonna happen. 

What about another solo tour? 

I love playing festivals, but I don’t know about touring. I don’t look forward to ever having to play the Ventura Theater again with a plate of cold cuts backstage. Life’s too short, and I’m not doing that bullshit anymore. That was actually the night I swore off touring. [Editor’s note: Love last played the Ventura in 2015.] I just said, “Nope! No more small theaters, no more cold cuts. Not doing it.”  

I don’t look forward to ever having to play the Ventura Theater again with a plate of cold cuts backstage.

I read that you’ve practiced Nichiren Buddhism for several years. What role does your spirituality play in your creative process now? 

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