Guy Sebastian on his shock The Voice decision: ‘Right now it is a bit too safe’

Guy Sebastian has explained his shock decision to leave The Voice Australia. What was wrong with that big red chair after six years? Here is what he said.

Guy Sebastian has detailed his reasoning behind standing down as a coach on The Voice after six years.

The chart topping singer shocked fans with the announcement days after the recent season finale in which he sat in the red judging chairs alongside Adam Lambert LeAnn Rimes and Kate Miller-Heidke.

“I think I’ve been too comfortable … I’ve done it because it is comfortable,” Sebastian told The Daily Telegraph of remaining on the reality singing show for so long.

“It is great for my family life and keeping me at home. I’m always busy and I’ve always got something in the calendar that is just sort of stopping me from jumping in with both feet and I think it boils down to this desire to be uncomfortable again.”

While viewers see much less, production on The Voice goes for roughly six months of the year.

Guy Sebastian at Sony Music in Pyrmont. He has a new single out called No Reason To Stay. Picture: Tim Hunter.

It has been four years since the release of his last album, T.R.U.T.H., which he will tour here and abroad in 2025.

Sebastian, 43, has given fans a taste of what’s to come by way of new single, No Reason To Stay.

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“I want to pour myself into it but I can only ever really pour myself into my music and touring and my art these days in spurts, and it is a juggle of fatherhood, being a husband, being a musician, being on TV,” Sebastian explained.

“I want to be uncomfortable again and I want to play new music and have fun and have every show be different because right now it is a bit too safe.”

The next album will be Sebastian’s 10th since he rose to national fame off the back of winning Australian Idol in 2003.

“Everybody probably thinks I have a grand plan because I’ve quit a really good gig,” he said.

“The whole point of it was, let me have space to just go with the wind.”

Guy Sebastian at Sony Music in Pyrmont. He has a new single out called No Reason To Stay. Picture: Tim Hunter.

Of the upcoming album as a body of work, he said: “music that either makes me want to move or moves me but I’ve approached this one without chasing anything, nothing. I would get to this point in an album release and go, what have I delivered for radio that four-year-olds are going to like? I just haven’t had those thoughts so what has come, has come and it is pretty liberating I think.”