Guy Sebastian
Well, I actually grew up singing in church, and I was in choirs.
I like a lot of gospel music.
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 think my music is very positive.
You can't get along with everyone.
I didn't like Iggy, I was pretty open with that. She was awful to me.
A little competitive side of me just doesn't want to come dead last.
Management relationship, it's very unique. You have to bare all of your weaknesses and warts and all for them to effectively manage you.
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.
I don't think anyone has the right to tell someone who they can and can't be in love with.
I'm very lucky to still be in love and still have a wife I'm very attracted to. It was worth the wait.
My views are more based on life and discovery and research than just what I'm told.
My wife and I run a foundation where we deal with domestic violence.
I had to burn all of my non-Christian records.
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.
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.'
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.
Violence against women is always wrong.
Mate, my fat COVID body. I won't be able to do one chin-up.
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 wasn't sure music was an option for me.
I was a weird-looking chubby, half-Asian kid who didn't have the pop star look.
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.
I didn't have a lot of cash... but in my mind I looked like Lenny Kravitz!
I guess we go through multiple rough patches in all of our relationships.
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.
But that's the beauty of being in the public eye - people are always going to have opinions and I respect that.
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.
You know, I really love 360. He's super positive and he's always collaborative, and collaborating with Aussie artists.
Jules has always put herself last I guess.
I had always wanted a family and I have always wanted something really stable and beautiful to come home to.
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.
There were times when I struggled mentally and felt betrayed.
When you love someone, then you put that person front and center.
I don't think I ate bat. I definitely didn't intentionally eat bat.
I don't care what people wear to be honest.
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.
So often in this industry people tell us we've had our day or we've had our time.
I feel like we have these tough years preparing for this great season of life and I feel like 2019 will be that.
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 still believe in God, I still believe in the fundamentals of that. But I base it on the fact God is love.
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 don't think there needs to be constant drama.
Oprah is the queen!
If I'm being honest I hate the whole genre thing.
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.
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.
When it comes to the producers' song choices versus the judges' song choices, the producers just suggest stuff.
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.