Quotes from Guy Sebastian

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

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

I've done things like Letterman and Jimmy Fallon.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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'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.

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.

I literally went cold turkey on carbs, didn't have a grain of rice. No pasta, no bread, no booze - I didn't get on that for 10 weeks!

Open communication is the biggest turn-on.

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.

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.

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.

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

I tend to just keep adding to a playlist, then I get bored and start a whole new one.

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

As far as melodies go, I could probably write 100 songs in a day - with no words of course - just because I love melody.