Courtney Barnett Quotes

When you have a situation where you're hanging out with 20 or 30 other artists, then there's insane amounts of creativity in the room.

Without sounding pretentious, it's nice to always be surrounded by creative people who inspire me and keep my levels of creativity charged.

I love being around great artists, and I've been around a few of them.

I think it's healthy that people that work in a creative field look for inspiration in a different creative field.

Inspiration must find answering inspiration.

There's a great social component to being a writer, to being an artist.

I keep a creative group around me.

To me, the more dialogue amongst creative types, the better. It keeps people on their toes, and competition is healthy.

At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.

The fact that I'm in a group that inspires others artists is just heaven to me.

Constantly writing with new people is important. Also, listening to new music that's popular and that's making a splash - that's how I get motivated.

New York is an incredible place to be an artist, because there are so many incredible people, and... it's all about the people that you get exposed to.

I think that anything that leads to creativity and good work is good.

Working with other artists and sharing your passions is great.

I get inspired at different times and in different ways.

I don't know if it'd be any time soon but I'd really like to work on a collaboration with somebody - I always have ideas for stuff like that.

I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world.

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

Every day you run into artists on the streets in SoHo or other creative people you want to do something with. There's nothing to match that chance encounter.

I'm fortunate I have this coterie of musicians around me to help take music to next level. Being surrounded by so much creative energy, so many creative people really feeds that creativity in me.

Whenever I meet someone who's talented, I always want to write something for them!

It doesn't matter if they're famous or not - I just want to meet other creative people who can maybe bring something different to the studio than what I have. I think that's the most important thing for me.

I wasn't thinking of competing with any artists as such, I was more thinking of being among them, and sharing thoughts with them; like sharing views, ideas, etc.

When I put something into motion, the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed. I'm just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I'll die. But, it really is about that shared experience with people. I'm from theater, and that's really what theater feels like.

It's fun and super exciting to see how other people work, how other people write music, and how other people put things together. To me, it's an endless learning process, and I love doing it because everybody works so completely differently.