103 Quotes by Jimmy Barnes

I was probably born an alcoholic.

I'm hyperactive.

I'm one of those people who can't sit still. I like to be doing something. I cook; I've been painting.

I think it's criminal the way poverty is allowed to flourish.

I used to think I was tough, but there's a difference between bravado and courage, and I only started to show courage when I began to get help. So now I make a point of telling people, 'Hey, it's a good thing to ask for help, not a bad thing.'

I know that life is full of lessons to be learned, and my children will have to learn their own, but I hope I have broken the cycle of shame and fear that plagued my childhood.

It's one of the beautiful things about Australia that people do get to share this life here, away from trouble.

We're a whole country full of migrants - we need each other, and we should help each other.

Around 2001, I went to rehab in Arizona, and I started to see what was going on and how the past affected me. I started to get a grip on it. But over the next decade, I reverted to the behaviour I used to protect myself when I was young - being mindless, being defeatist and full of bravado.