Top 55 Guy Sebastian Quotes

If you were watching the Olympics, you absolutely saw a ‘Voice’ ad. You could not escape that ‘The Voice’ was on, so it was really well done by Seven.

If I’m being honest I hate the whole genre thing.

You’ve got to think as a listener when you’re making a playlist. So I think ‘When do I go to certain playlists, what are the moods I’m looking for?’ Theme is crucial. People have a feeling and they want the music to be the backdrop to that feeling.

I was a weird-looking chubby, half-Asian kid who didn’t have the pop star look.

There are moments in our lives that are more difficult than others. And I can look at each song and remember where I was during those times – from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows.

Open communication is the biggest turn-on.

None of us are perfect, but the truth is important and it is something we should all strive for.

You just go from sort of normal life – nobody knowing your name and what you look like – to it being a matter of two months or something and there are people making posters and holding your name up and camping outside your house and really crazy stuff.

And I always actually say, ‘The Voice’ isn’t just about trying to find a superstar. We also give a platform to gigging musicians and people who do what they do, and expose them to so many other people to enhance what they do.

I must say that kids make it a lot harder process, especially having to live the life of a traveling recording artist.

I don’t know if there’s only one God, I don’t know if there’s a God, I just have a faith that there is. That’s what I’ve grown up with.

I want my kids to have a balanced view. I don’t want them to grow up with a close-minded corridor-vision mentality. I want them to have a good understanding of the different sections of society.

I think of a playlist like a setlist at a concert. The first song is crucial, that establishes the vibe.

I am trying to get used to living in Sydney and it is not really happening so I might have to get a house in Adelaide somewhere.

My views are more based on life and discovery and research than just what I’m told.

I didn’t like Iggy, I was pretty open with that. She was awful to me.

You can’t get along with everyone.

The purpose of my songwriting is to put the things I have been through in a song in order to help others who may be in a similar situation.

Oprah is the queen!

I think my music is very positive.

Mate, my fat COVID body. I won’t be able to do one chin-up.

It’s important to know people grow up differently than you, and they believe different things. It’s not about who’s right or wrong.

I didn’t have a lot of cash… but in my mind I looked like Lenny Kravitz!

Deep down I’m just a suburban Adelaide boy who likes to have a nice burger at Tea Tree Plaza and go to movies on Cheap Tuesday.

We’re in the best country in the world, it’s unbelievable, I’ve travelled the world, I’ve lived in other places, from New York to the U.K. and I can never ever get out of those places what I get out of Australia and I think that’s enough fuel for me to want to do well.

I always struggle to get Aussies on stuff if I’m just being honest. I’ve asked heaps of Aussies to do duets and it’s always just a pain in the bum and I just don’t bother any more.

When you love someone, then you put that person front and center.

A little competitive side of me just doesn’t want to come dead last.

Girls, they just have something that guys don’t have. They’ve got this patience and this motherly thing, we just don’t have that same patience as men.

It’s difficult in the media to talk about a complex issue when you don’t have a lot of time without being general.

I take in a lot of different styles when I listen to music, but when I’m actually writing a song it comes from a very stripped back place that focuses on melody and soaring choruses that lift-off.

Initially I thought I’d get to Memphis and freak out, I thought I was going to feel so inadequate but I got there, and something grabbed hold of me and I just knew this was my arena.

I was a bit of a workaholic in the past and now I realize the importance of making room for what matters in life.

There were times when I struggled mentally and felt betrayed.

I wasn’t allowed to ever have a drink or go into a bar, or even see a non-Christian gig when I was younger.

With Malaysian and Indian heritage, food is a big part of our culture and I am always cooking and always entertaining.

So often in this industry people tell us we’ve had our day or we’ve had our time.

I had always wanted a family and I have always wanted something really stable and beautiful to come home to.

My wife and I run a foundation where we deal with domestic violence.

Some people are great lyricists, but they’re terrible at melody. But I could do melodies till the cows come home.

Mate I’m eating the most rancid stuff, like frog legs and all sorts of weird stuff. Mate, I’ll try anything once.

I don’t think I ate bat. I definitely didn’t intentionally eat bat.

I feel like we have these tough years preparing for this great season of life and I feel like 2019 will be that.

There’s never any time for anything that’s remotely kinky, and even when I try to send some kinky stuff, it always gets shut down.

I still believe in God, I still believe in the fundamentals of that. But I base it on the fact God is love.

I’ll generally always get melody first and then I’ll go in and try and think of a title and lyrics generally come last.

If I am going to shine in any arena, it is going to be blues and soul.

There’s something lifts off me when I’m in Adelaide.

I think Jules has gotten hotter, with age. I mean you should’ve seen her when I first started dating her – not hot. I’ve told her that.

It’s always good to be home and see the parents, and hit up my favorite Chinatown cafes for curry chicken rice.

When you live your life with honesty and integrity, there is nothing that anyone can ever take away from you.

Representing Australia is not a thing I take lightly.

You know, I really love 360. He’s super positive and he’s always collaborative, and collaborating with Aussie artists.

Tom Misch, I found him on a soul playlist.

I’d love to be able to take a 8-months off on the coast somewhere, like some of my musician friends, and create an album but instead I have to create what I do in the midst of chaos.