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“Being on stage is a totally unique experience, but you have to try to get as close as you can when you’re in the studio, otherwise it’s not genuine, y’know?”

“Working solo, you can actually sit there and enjoy singin’ because you don’t have to compete with drums bashin’ and loud guitars.”

“There are things that I would purposely not listen to because I think I find that it can end up kind of throwing you off the scent a little bit”

“In other words, I never really cared about what Neil Young meant by After The Gold Rush, I just know what it meant to me”

“To look inward you got to admit everything that’s in there, good and bad – it’s not easy.”

“It’s quite dense, it’s dynamic, there’s loud parts, and there’s more subtle moments. What else would I say? It’s kind of apocalyptic. I don’t know.”

Vance Joy goes skinny-dipping in Europe. Oh and he plays a bunch of shows too.

“The first time we did it, it felt more like meeting someone in high school and you get pregnant so you get married, y’know? Things were happening really fast and we just jumped into the water and tried to swim”

“People are always trying to label what you do, and to me our music should be hippie baroque.”

“There is never that internal wince when travelling to Australia; it’s been one of the audiences that have always enjoyed being part of the show”

“It was that first Splendour tour where we were just like, ‘Holy shit.’”