Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Conrad Sewell

I don't think I'll ever be a person who likes to work out.

I want to touch people with the music and help them through whatever they're going through. That's what music's there for - making people happy.

I think videos are really hard. I'm yet to be happy with a video. It's very weird watching yourself on camera, which I guess I'm going to have to get used to. I love the thought of being in them, but it's one thing to say that and another to actually do it.

I knew I wanted to do music at eight years of age. I listened to a lot of Motown growing up, and it got to the point where I started mimicking people - Michael Jackson or whoever. People started to notice I could hold a tone. The bug was always there.

To come home and have three songs working on radio, I can't tell you how happy I am. It is amazing.

My grandfather was like Australia's Tom Jones.

I want to be remembered as a great performer.

You have those songs that are very special to you that you don't want to get ruined by production. Something like 'Start Again' shouldn't be touched. It's a classic-sounding song on a piano and violins and harmonies, and I think those songs are perfect as they are.

Nineties music was what I grew up with, and I want to make music that's soulful but that you can also dance and drive to.

The Hiltons know how to put on a good wedding, that's all I can say.

Traveling a lot and touring, you're in and out of hotels, and you don't have any comforts around.

Even though I am signed to an American label, I want Australia to fall in love with my music because if it doesn't work here, it won't work anywhere.

I'm not trying to say I'm this artist who is all artsy and that I only write music for myself, because I don't. I write music for other people to enjoy, so I think about if it'd be an idea someone else would like.

Once we played for the Princess of Monaco in Paris. We were the biggest ducks ever, wearing rented tuxedos. We trashed the party, took a bunch of girls and champagne in limos underneath the Eiffel Tower, and set up an acoustic show. It was like a Hilary Duff movie.