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" When I was on the road with Billy Bragg, it was cool because I was doing the whole thing solo and travel a lot by myself, which I quite like. I mean, I love being with friends, but it's kind of nice having that alone time. "

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" I hate going anywhere. I'm really excited to travel and play all these different places, but if I had it my way, I would stay inside, maybe go to the back garden or walk around the corner to the shops. That's it. "

Courtney Barnett

Walk

Back

Garden

" I keep a journal and just kind of take notes. I don't really so much sit down and write songs - I just take a lot of notes, and sometimes I sit down and put them all together. "

" I'm very hands on with my music - I do all the artwork and everything myself - and the songs I write aren't necessarily the most commercial. "

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

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

Courtney Barnett

Some

Listening

" An album is a thing you take time out and go work on. "

" The first song I wrote was called 'You,' and it was a love song about somebody who didn't even exist. "

" When I started Milk! Records, it was a pretty non-profit making venture. "

" I have a normal life; I don't do anything crazy. "

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

" I just get bored really quickly and want to push myself to the next level. "

" 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. "

" I'm just not very comfortable talking about my emotions on a normal, day-to-day basis. "

" We're a very success-driven culture, which is such a downer at times. Even if you don't think that way, you're forced to think that way. Everyone is trying to subconsciously out-do everyone else. "

" I just want to be self-sustainable so that I can continue to just do what I like to do and not make a million dollars. Nobody needs a million dollars. "

Courtney Barnett

Million

Want

" 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. "

" I really want a Christmas in New York one year, when it's snowing. Like, it's Christmas morning, and you have a fight with someone, and you run down the street, and it's snowing, and you can't find them. "

" Dad sometimes sends me texts saying, 'Just heard you on the radio, thumbs up', or whatever. So that's pretty cute. "

" I liked the idea of being a photographer, just that you take this one picture of this one thing that'll never happen again - it's a bit weird when you think about it. "

" Obviously, the more you tour, the more comfortable you get. "

" I started writing songs when I started learning guitar. "

" You can't read when you're traveling with other people; it always feels a bit rude. "

" I'm self-deprecating - I spend a lot of time telling myself that things are OK, as opposed to having to tell myself to get over things. "

" If I write something down, it's normally just a sharp one-liner. "

" I like reading biographies because most of them are slightly similar, and it's voyeuristic, looking into someone's life. "

Courtney Barnett

Life

Reading

" I don't like to overcook songs. "

Courtney Barnett

Songs

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

" I grew up listening to hipster jazz and classical records... we went and watched ballet and orchestras - lots of cool stuff. Which I'm really grateful for - it's pretty nice being introduced to that when you're little. "

" I played in school jazz bands and tried to start rock bands, but nobody was interested. "

" I never planned to be a professional artist - I just want to be a sustainable artist. I guess they're the same thing if you look at them from a different angle. "