Creativity Quote by Catie Curtis

Curtis frames songwriting less like a lightning bolt and more like a shift you clock into, and that’s the quietly radical move here. “Five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar” isn’t romantic; it’s domestic, repetitive, almost monastic. She’s puncturing the myth that good songs arrive fully formed to the gifted. In a music culture that still sells “authenticity” as effortless, Curtis is describing craft as stamina.

The phrasing is doing a lot of work. “Really try” shows the grind without turning it into martyrdom; it’s effort, not suffering-as-brand. “Come up with stuff” keeps the process humble, even a little messy, as if ideas are objects you rummage for rather than revelations you receive. Then she centers the only audience that matters at the earliest stage: “interesting enough to me to keep it.” That’s a subtle boundary against both the algorithm and the imaginary critic. Before the marketplace, before the crowd, there’s the private threshold of curiosity.

There’s also an implied economics of attention. Five to eight hours alone suggests a refusal of constant visibility - no content churn, no performative productivity, just long stretches where nothing may happen until something does. The subtext is discipline as a form of artistic self-respect: you earn the song by staying in the room long enough to find the version that doesn’t bore you. In an era of quick hooks and quicker posting, Curtis is staking out time as the real instrument.