Courtney Barnett People Quotations

Leaving the house is a big enough occasion for me, so getting on a plane and flying across the world and playing to a room full of people is just out of this world.

People are like, 'Wow you started your own record label,' and treat me like I'm some sort of innovative genius, when I'm not at all. You've got the Internet and music - you put them together, and people hear your music.

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.

I think that if people get my music, then they get what my message is.

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

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

What's funny about the slacker thing, people project an image of what they think a musician is: young, slack, unemployed - like a really romantic idea of a poet, writer or musician - which isn't really true a lot of the time. I don't reckon you would know anything about me if I wasn't moderately hard-working.

Everyone writes in whatever way feels comfortable to them. People write songs because maybe they don't feel so comfortable talking about whatever matters.