Courtney Barnett Song Quotations

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.

I don't like to overcook songs.