But, yeah, I think that for every hundred pages, there's, you know, a good page.ĬHANG: You could hear lyrics in your earlier work that often explored your anxiety.
And then, eventually - you know, eventually that might lead to me understanding something better, which might turn into a song. And some - and a lot of the writing I do doesn't make much sense, but it helps in the moment. You know, I think that writing in general does that for me. That kind of normally makes the top of my list.īARNETT: (Signing) I'm looking forward to the next letter that I'm going to get from you.ĬHANG: So did writing it out actually make you feel better? Did you feel that your mood, your outlook, just your state of mind start to shift?īARNETT: Yeah. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "WRITE A LIST OF THINGS TO LOOK FORWARD TO")īARNETT: (Singing) Nobody knows why we keep trying.Īnd then they were like, well, what about this little thing and this little thing? And, you know, just as little as, like, waking up tomorrow and watching the sunrise and drinking a coffee. There's nothing that I'm looking forward to. So I rolled my eyes, and I was like, well, nothing. (SOUNDBITE OF COURTNEY BARNETT SONG, "WRITE A LIST OF THINGS TO LOOK FORWARD TO")ĬHANG: Barnett admits that she was skeptical at first about that list idea.īARNETT: When that friend gave me that advice, I was very low. That advice became the title to one of the songs on her new album, "Things Take Time, Take Time." But I think it's just - I guess, I just was probably pretty depressed at a point.ĬHANG: That's when a friend suggested a simple idea - write a list of things to look forward to. Not long ago, Australian musician Courtney Barnett was struggling.ĬOURTNEY BARNETT: It's kind of hard to, like, put into a couple of catchy sentences.
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