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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
As a teenager, I didn't really think about anything. I was just stumbling around trying to find something.
- Chisel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cold Chisel had their moments, but basically, they were all decent, quiet chaps. I was just a lunatic. Those guys didn't know what had hit them when I joined the band.
- Bloke
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to think anyone with abandonment issues was a waste of space. But you do need to get help. Blokes don't talk about those things. It's a taboo in the bloke world.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood in Adelaide was filled with sport. I played soccer from morning until night.
- Fighter
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was a prize fighter in his youth. My boxing skills are very limited. I did train for most of my youth but couldn't really see the point of getting punched in the head. I'm a lover, not a fighter, but I do enjoy the sport in its purest form. As a child, my heroes were my dad and Muhammad Ali.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there was one thing I tried to instil in my children as they were growing up, it was that you get nothing for nothing. You have to work hard to get any rewards. That applies in music or whatever you choose to do. The same goes in relationships; you will only get back what you put in.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find that cooking is relaxing and makes me feel at home.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an immigrant.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politicians have been spreading fear, saying if we're letting in refugees, we're letting in terrorists. It's not the truth. We've got to recognise the difference between terrorism and people who are refugees; people who are struggling.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate fear politics.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter what day we celebrate Australia Day, let's celebrate it together and give thanks to the original inhabitants of this vast country. We are lucky to be sharing it with them.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are new children arriving and trying to reach our lucky country every day, and I hope that we can all work together to help them find their dream, too.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never take for granted how great Australia is and how well I have been treated here, so thank you for this chance at making a good life.
- Healing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been writing books because it's been my way of dealing with the demons. The act of sitting down and writing the books down has started healing process that's been long overdue.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best times in Cold Chisel were when we were all in the back of the car together, us against the world.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something about the energy and the expectations that an audience projects at you. I get up on stage and work and work, and there's chaos all around me, then I'll shut my eyes, and boom! I slot into the zone. It's like the eye of the hurricane. Everything is easy, and I'm capable of doing things I didn't know I was.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Success isn't about reaching your goals; it's about striving for things, like the joy of trying to raise a family, trying to be a successful singer, trying to write good songs, trying to be a better person. It's that old thing about life being about the journey, not the destination.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a long time, it was all about chart position. 'If my record doesn't come in at No. 1, I'm a failure.' I cared too much about what people thought of me, and that was symptomatic of the trauma from my childhood.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Working Class Man' is my second memoir and is a continuation of my story from where 'Working Class Boy' left off. The book is really an attempt at explaining the impact of my childhood on myself and the ones I loved as an adult.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people I know think that I'm crazy - but anybody who actually knew Billy Thorpe didn't think that. When I was a young kid growing up in Adelaide, he was a big pop star - a well-dressed, nice young guy seen on television every week. Mums liked him.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1972, I climbed out of my bedroom window and ran away from home with my older sister and her friends to go to the infamous Sunbury rock festival.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first started, all the reviews of Cold Chisel would say, 'This singer won't have a voice in six months.'
- Nov 07, 2020