Quotes from Vance Joy

The fact I even get an opportunity to make one album is crazy. But if all goes to plan, I'll get to make five albums. That'd be nice.

It's a weird thing to say you want people to be sick of your song, but I guess that's what happens if your song goes really well.

I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.

When you think of love do you think of pain?

I wasn't completely comfortable in the footy culture because I wasn't that comfortable in my own skin, which I am now. I'd fit in better now, but I don't miss the training and the injuries you get playing footy.

I'm a folk singer-songwriter. I am pretty poppy though.

I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.

When I go to a gig and I hear a song that I really like, a song that hits home to me or hits an emotional nerve, if I could ever recreate that for someone, that would be the ultimate goal.

I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.

I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.