Jimmy Barnes

Jimmy: (announcing his 2008 tour) I love playing pubs, but after heart surgery particularly, I wanted to start thinking about doing more quality gigs and less quantity. In a pub if you do more than two ballads in a set you hear (the audience) starting ... a fight or arguing with their wife, so you've got to keep their attention all the time. I think it's going to allow me a lot more scope for how I construct the set - I'll still be doing big slamming hits and lots of Chisel stuff, but at the same time I'll get to do some of the new album, and maybe some new songs that I'll write in the meantime.

Jimmy: (following the announcement he would host the "Planet Rock" radio show on Triple M) I am really excited to be taking the reigns of the new look "Planet Rock". It's all about the music for me, so I can promise it will be full of a great mix of old and new with a few personal stories thrown in.

Jimmy: This guy said I was one of about half a dozen people he's ever seen in the world who have taught themselves to sing like this. And so I get to the point where I can't speak because I use my vocal cords to speak, but I can still sing. So, um, you know, I just don't lose my voice. It's like a... My voice is like a Mack truck. It's hard to start and then you can't stop it.