She’s aware that she is the rock ‘n’ roll mom many love to hate. “Say the name Courtney Love to a stranger and they’re liable to respond, ‘That horrible woman!’ ” the Hole singer, 45, tells Dazed and Confused magazine.

But with over 7,000 followers on Twitter and a much-anticipated new record, it’s obvious folks can’t seem to get enough of her. Especially when she’s going off about family issues, like her recent loss of custody of daughter Frances Bean Cobain, an issue that’s still in flux, as far as Love is concerned.

“The past few years have been Frances and me against the world,” she says.

But for the life of her she can’t understand why so many people care. “I don’t make a good celebrity and nor do I want to,” she says. “If I was a good celebrity I’d be really enigmatic and contrived. Some people can step outside themselves and view themselves how others do. I just can’t.”

Admitting that she doesn’t “communicate brilliantly in any other form” but music, her next record, Nobody’s Daughter, offers a deeper glimpse into her world. Crafting an album about “greed, the recession, the depression [and] vengeance” she says, has “been the most important thing in my life other than Frances.”

Having successfully worked through her drug addiction, a struggle she says led to the “failure” of her solo career, Love has learned, “that you can’t be Mick and Keith. You can’t be the one on drugs and the one in control.”

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It’s not all work for John Mayer, who is in Nashville and slated to film an upcoming episode of CMT’s Crossroads with Keith Urban Tuesday.

On Sunday, the rocker stepped out to dinner with Nashville resident – and good friend – Taylor Swift, at hot spot Cabana. The two, who recently recorded “Half of My Heart” for Mayer’s latest album Battle Studies, were joined by a group of about 15 friends and sat next to each other throughout the meal. But the gathering was friendly – and not romantic. “It looked like a big group of Nashville friends,” a source says of the group.

“They were so nice,” the source says of the two singers, who enjoyed their meal at a quiet table away from other diners but were also chatty with restaurant and bar staff.

And Swift is one dedicated diner. According to the source, this was her second visit to Cabana in one week. She stopped in on Jan. 19 with a smaller group of friends and ordered the Blanco pizza with provolone cheese and roasted garlic.

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Gerard Butler goes out with friends to Venice Beach, stopping and talking with a lot of ladies on his way. He posed in front of a poster of one of his latest movies “Gamer”, before listening to a violinist play in front of her house. He then managed to exchange numbers and charm her in matter of minutes kissing her passionately on the sidewalk.

Lots of makin out after the jump! MORE

Jessica Simpson leaves Boa Steakhouse in Santa Monica, CA arm in arm with a pal after dining with a group of friends including Gerard Butler last night. Although the pair ate together, they left separately!

I’ll just put it on record that I don’t think they’re dating…I think Gerard’s making the rounds, that’s all.

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