"Someone's running your life. Most of us are on the throne of our own lives. Jesus wants to sit on the throne of your life."

“Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good”

Source : Interview with Heidi Raykeill, www.literarymama.com. April 2004.

“I think even though things are changing a bit, we still kind of tend to grow up with girls being like, 'Don't be too loud, don't be too rude, don't be too naughty,' or whatever, to act a certain way.”

Source : "Courtney Barnett on songwriting, self-confidence, and her record label". Interview with Rose Riddell, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 29, 2016.

“Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace.It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him.”

“There's a film you write, there's a film you shoot, and there's a film that you cut - and they're all different.”

“I believe in doing what I am best at.”

“I love potatoes - they're my favorite food.”

“Seducers are more dangerous enemies to the church than persecutors.”

“In the United States Senate, one of the things I observed in the early days - and it's still used - and that is that you take someone's argument and then you misrepresent it and misstate and disagree with it. And it's very effective. I've done it myself a number of times. But eventually, eventually people catch on.”