Vance Joy Quotes

Dancing and singing are the two things that have stuck with me throughout my life.

I've always been an all around creative person. Song writing and writing are great ways for me to express myself.

No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs.

The main thing in making your own music is that it's an expression of someone's personality and being. That's what people want to hear, and you can't really teach that - that's just something that comes out. Teaching just hones that.

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.

I love playing. The keyboard is my journal.

The way I work is not the way that you work, and the whole point of any creative act is that. What I have to offer is me, what you have to offer is you, and if you offer yourself with authenticity and generosity I will be moved.

Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won't stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.

Between films you try to fill your life with hobbies; acting is really so satisfying when you're doing it, and definitely feeds your imagination and creativity to a great degree, but you can't really take much away from it to show for it. I try to fill my time with other things.

At a young age, I really wanted to make music and make my own sort of thing. I'm sure if it wasn't music, it would have been writing, or it would have been maybe painting. I just always had the drive to try and make something with my hands and to just pull something out of myself and shape it and see it in front of me, if that makes any sense.

I was loving music, and loving art, painting, so I was considering those things, but I must say I dug acting as well.

Writing music is really personal, and it's a really exciting thing to participate in because represents the full creative process: It feels like something is coming from nothing.

I feel so fortunate to get paid to be an actor. I pinch myself. I get it from writing, I get it from baking, gardening... I sort of open myself to the creative flow, which is hard to do, by the way.

The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.

Advice for young people who want to channel their personality into creative work - be authentic.

I think doing something creative is the most important thing to me, and I think it's probably just good for the soul for anyone, whatever it is. You don't have to be a film director - you can do gardening or something - but I think everyone needs to create something.

[Songwriting is] something that I own - it's my property, it's my music, it's my voice.

All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.

Everyone has their own sound, and if you're heard enough, folks will come to recognize it. Style however, is a different thing. Try to express your own ideas. It's much more difficult to do, but the rewards are there if you're good enough to pull it off.

The creative part of oneself finds its way out. In this case, I got interested particularly in the medium of Twitter and looked for ways to use it creatively.

Writing becomes a really good creative outlet when you're sitting there and feeling creatively frustrated or stilted, but also you then get to write parts for yourself.

Words are the instruments you play to the song of your ideas, you're just playing covers.

I come from a visual background, and I grew up around a lot of hippies and artists. My mom and my brother and I moved around a lot. We basically moved every couple of years, and I went to a lot of different schools. But creativity, for us, was always a way of life. It was never a job. Being an artist was a passion and a way of life.

I was always being creative. I could never have played a defensive role because I would have been forced to destroy the other player's creativity.

The opening line from a journal can be the beginning of a song.