Best 28 quotes of Courtney Barnett on MyQuotes

Artists thrive off each other, and when you see other people doing cool stuff, it inspires you to do cool stuff.

Every time I write a song it feels like it could be the last one I do, or it always feels like a fluke.

Festivals are always fun. I went to a lot when I was younger and had money to go to them. I like playing at festivals. They're always kind of like a big, crazy circus.

I definitely grew up on a lot of American bands. I didn't really know that there were any decent Australian bands until I was around 20.

I don't know anything except being female, so I don't know the opposite of it.

I don't really feel like a rock artist, but I guess in the small category of the world of music genres, that's where I fall in because I've got a guitar.

If I make a wrong decision, I worry what might have been. I stress out over very insignificant things.

If I'm not touring I'd just be at home, just driving - I'm kind of at a loss for how that stuff works.

I grew up listening to Nirvana, and then went through some bad 90s pop stuff - a lot of Australian one-hit wonders.

I reckon that growing up, listening to so much different music, I think over time I just kind of sucked it all in and it probably comes back out through my music.

I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.

I think even though things are changing a bit, we still kind of tend to grow up with girls being like, 'Don't be too loud, don't be too rude, don't be too naughty,' or whatever, to act a certain way.

I think everyone's so scared of other people judging them.

I think that a good song is catchy, and a great song is not catchy - but it has a deeper meaning.

I try to take notes of things that happen that I think are important or interesting or just little tidbits here and there that happen in life. And some of it's even just one line or like a saying and I just go off that.

I try to write a lot and my process is kind of back and forth. I procrastinate a lot so when I do sit down to write, I'm pretty lazy at it. And it's such a frustrating thing sometimes - writing - when you don't do it all the time, you get that thing in your head that you have nothing to talk about and you can't write songs.

It's easier to be angry. It's harder to be positive and happy, I reckon.

It was cool at the rock camp - girls could just be themselves and they could be silly, they could roll around on the floor playing guitar.

I've never liked songs that are about writing, or struggling to write. Maybe it's because it's too relatable to me.

I've never really had a certain style of music in mind that I make, or am really adamant on how something should sound, but I like the process of not knowing, of just seeing what happens and what comes out.

"On Script" is one of my favorite songs I've ever written. I'd just been jamming on it one day, and again I was struggling with lyrics. I'm still figuring out what it's about. I've seen a couple of reviews that are like, "It's about the monotony of playing the same songs every night," because I say, "On script every night/Like a well-rehearsed stage show." It's not about that at all, but I find that funny, how people project what they think about me, or songwriters in general.

People should be free to take whatever they want from music and I think that over time I realized that different people always find different things in my songs, which is really good.

Sometimes I have something stuck in my head and that directs the rhyme that I'm writing with.

The first song I wrote was called "You" and it was a love song about somebody who didn't even exist. I remember them all because I used to always write terrible poetry. I keep all my notebooks.

The music, I think, is just as important as the lyrics; it portrays the emotion of the song. I play the kind of music that I want to listen to.

There's lots of interesting stuff happening in the world. Lots of good and bad things, and there's interest in music still, which there always will be, which is always a good thing.

When I was a teen, or like 18 to early 20s, I used to go to festivals all the time. I'd save all my money.

Give me all your money and I'll make some origami, honey.