When I came to Australia, it was like heaven.Jimmy BarnesTheWorldMotivation.comTry New ThemeDownloadSharePin ItCopied to clipboard!“When I came to Australia, it was like heaven.
“I always wanted to be in a rock band, but I wanted to sing like a soul singer.”Jimmy BarnesRock Band
“I always thought I could be brave and charge at things and smash 'em and walk away, but it takes courage to sit and look at things and say, 'This is what I am. How do I fix it? How do I live with it?'”Jimmy Barnes
“There's an ease that I have living in Australia. The best things about Sydney are free: the sunshine's free, and the harbour's free, and the beach is free.”Russell CroweAustralia
“National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word 'industry' is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense.”Peter WeirAustralia
“It doesn't really seem any different anywhere. I'd say it seems like we're biggest in Australia. It's just that we've always been this underground band and for some reason in the last month has been starting to go overground.”
“It's a real bloke thing, not talking to people because it's not manly to get help.”Jimmy BarnesBloke
“I think tax is tough in this country. Every time I sign a cheque to pay tax, it drives me crazy. But at the same time, I'm happy to live here. I want to have a good medical system, good education, good roads, so it's a Catch 22. I hate it, but it's a necessary evil.”Jimmy BarnesEducation
“Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude.”Charles SturtAustralia
“There's Sia and 5 Seconds of Summer but that's sort of it, nobody from Australia really has success in America, and to have a song go so well on radio, you start to have success and you think, 'Oh God, I don't want to lose that!'”Dean LewisAustralia