Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Australian singer Guy Sebastian.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Guy Theodore Sebastian is an Australian singer and songwriter who was the winner of the first Australian Idol in 2003, judge on Australia's The X Factor from 2010 to 2012 and again from 2015 to 2016, and coach on The Voice Australia since 2019. He represented Australia at the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest, finishing in fifth place.
I guess we go through multiple rough patches in all of our relationships.
My wife and I run a foundation where we deal with domestic violence.
I think my music is very positive.
I was in an unhealthy cycle. I was drinking too much. I wasn't eating well. And everything I thought I was doing right wasn't working.
I'm very lucky to still be in love and still have a wife I'm very attracted to. It was worth the wait.
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 weird-looking chubby, half-Asian kid who didn't have the pop star look.
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.
I don't think I ate bat. I definitely didn't intentionally eat bat.
Mate I'm eating the most rancid stuff, like frog legs and all sorts of weird stuff. Mate, I'll try anything once.
But that's the beauty of being in the public eye - people are always going to have opinions and I respect that.
I like a lot of gospel music.
I had always wanted a family and I have always wanted something really stable and beautiful to come home to.
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 don't care what people wear to be honest.
I've gone from a place where I was told there was one way and only one way, to being more in a place where I don't think anyone has the right to say what they believe is more important or more significant.
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.
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!
You can't get along with everyone.
I thought, 'As if I'm going to win a TV show, let alone get a record deal.' I'm going to go on TV with all these beautiful pop star-looking people? I'll never win.
You can't have a show that's too ballad heavy. Those are the black and white logistics of putting together a show. You have to have some balance and some order.
Well, I actually grew up singing in church, and I was in choirs.
If I was doing Eurovision 10 years ago I probably would have been swallowed by the grandeur of it but I feel like... I've been doing this for a while, I know what works for me and what doesn't.
When I pursued music, I was told, 'oh, he's just pursuing fame and fortune and he's left the call of Christ in his life.'
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.
I didn't have a lot of cash... but in my mind I looked like Lenny Kravitz!
Management relationship, it's very unique. You have to bare all of your weaknesses and warts and all for them to effectively manage you.
A little competitive side of me just doesn't want to come dead last.
If I'm being honest I hate the whole genre thing.
I don't think anyone has the right to tell someone who they can and can't be in love with.
I had to burn all of my non-Christian records.
There were times when I struggled mentally and felt betrayed.
Violence against women is always wrong.
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.
I don't think there needs to be constant drama.
I've gone through the years and I've written stuff for Jules that has never gotten published, but I thought I'd write her smooth R&B bedroom song.
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.
So often in this industry people tell us we've had our day or we've had our time.
You know, I really love 360. He's super positive and he's always collaborative, and collaborating with Aussie artists.
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 think something like rock week, especially when there's a live band and it's very themed, it feels like it's not very genuine.
Open communication is the biggest turn-on.
It's always good to be home and see the parents, and hit up my favorite Chinatown cafes for curry chicken rice.
Hudson just melts my heart. When I come home, he says, 'Daddy, daddy,' and it just turns my day around.
When you live a truthful life, you can smile without anything behind it; uninhibited joy knowing that you are doing your best to be the best person you can be.
Mate, my fat COVID body. I won't be able to do one chin-up.
When you love someone, then you put that person front and center.
I feel like we have these tough years preparing for this great season of life and I feel like 2019 will be that.
I didn't like Iggy, I was pretty open with that. She was awful to me.
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.
Jules has always put herself last I guess.
I wasn't sure music was an option for me.
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 still believe in God, I still believe in the fundamentals of that. But I base it on the fact God is love.
I just like donning a nice suit and getting dressed up.
If I'm making everyone wait, which happens... at least charm it on a bit. Go, 'Oh I'm so sorry I'm late.' Make up something.
I don't feel God is what people have said He is throughout generations. For me it's a faith. People sometimes lose the concept of faith.
My views are more based on life and discovery and research than just what I'm told.
I think there's so much already of the alternative on TV, it's actually nice to have some feel-good moments to warm your heart.