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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.

Courtney Barnett

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Courtney Barnett
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: November 3
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Singer-Songwriter
Courtney Melba Barnett
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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.
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Every time I write a song it feels like it could be the last one I do, or it always feels like a fluke.
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Artists thrive off each other, and when you see other people doing cool stuff, it inspires you to do cool stuff.
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I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.
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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.
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An album is a thing you take time out and go work on.
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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.
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I think that if people get my music, then they get what my message is.
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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.
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I've never liked songs that are about writing, or struggling to write. Maybe it's because it's too relatable to me.
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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.
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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.
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I think that a good song is catchy, and a great song is not catchy - but it has a deeper meaning.
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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.
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