Brooke Fraser Quotes & Sayings

The writing and making of each of my albums has been such a different beast each time, so I'm interested in seeing what kind of animal the fourth one turns out to be! — Brooke Fraser

Now that I am an adult, I'm very comfortable in my own skin. I'm a lot more settled down and I learnt to just be comfortable with where I'm at, rather than always wanting to be somewhere ahead of where I am. — Brooke Fraser

I learnt that music cost something, and that's a good thing. Also, that I should exercise, because I didn't and I got very sick. — Brooke Fraser

I know my sound, and I have to be true to who I am as an artist, even though I want be real cool, and make really cool music. — Brooke Fraser

I only say this because a lot of people seem to think that if you're a musician you want to be a celebrity. But most musicians in the world aren't celebrities, and pretty much everything about the concept of 'celebrity' is a complete load of bollocks anyhow. — Brooke Fraser

People aren't problems to be fixed. People are people, for us to walk alongside and journey with and help pick up the pieces with and, when they drop them again, to get back down and help them pick them up again. And that's real love - without condition and without expectation. — Brooke Fraser

I began dabbling in writing when I was 12, and there was never an official start to singing ... I just sang my songs because there was no one else to sing them and no one told me to shut up! — Brooke Fraser

I feel like I always have to have a song on my album that people can use in their weddings. — Brooke Fraser

I often think that eventually I'd love to do some papers ... my correspondence if life calms down a bit, but I think I'd do history or English literature ... I've had enough of journos. — Brooke Fraser

At sixteen I was like: "I need to get an album out now!" - even though I was only sixteen. I was always in a little bit of a rush to be an adult. — Brooke Fraser

David Bowie is the quintessential English gentleman and, of course, a musical and generational institution. I only played support for him for one night (not a whole tour) but he was incredibly gracious and generous toward me and I've certainly never forgotten it. — Brooke Fraser

I have a particular style of writing and my voice sounds a particular way, which lends itself to a certain style. — Brooke Fraser

Now that I have seen I am responsible, faith without deeds is dead. — Brooke Fraser

In the end, no matter how my records are panned or praised, if there are kids and communities in developing nations that have improved living conditions and are finally getting access to things we all have a basic right to (clean water, education, healthcare) because I am able to advocate, raise awareness or funds in some small way, then my life has achieved something that in the end means far more than having the track or album of the moment. — Brooke Fraser

Lead me to the cross
Where Your love poured out
Bring me to my knees
Lord I lay me down
Rid me of myself
I belong to You
Lead me, lead me to the cross. — Brooke Fraser

Singing was always quite a private thing ... I don't think my own mum even heard me sing until after I signed with Sony just out of high school! — Brooke Fraser

You don't normally think of Los Angeles as a place to go to get away. — Brooke Fraser

The music that I make isn't really like any of the music that I listen to. I think I listen to cool music, but I know that I don't make cool music - so it's kind of funny! — Brooke Fraser

I had received some minor indie label interest when I was 14 after I was in a schools music competition thing in NZ called 'Rockquest', but I knew it wasn't the right time and that I wasn't good enough and needed to concentrate on school. — Brooke Fraser

Then Jesus introduced Himself to me. Though my birth certificate reads 1983, I reckon I was born in 1999, when I met Jesus - not in a church or on a camp or through people, but alone in my bedroom with an open Bible and a tangible revelation that the Son of God was not only real, but alive and awesome and stronger than the chains that bound me. — Brooke Fraser

I'm a bit of a book worm, so a lot of the songs I write are inspired by books. — Brooke Fraser

I'm not quite sure where the sponsorship rumour came from ... probably because I have been a spokesperson for child sponsorship so people just assumed that was the connection. — Brooke Fraser

I think I was always an old soul, even as a teenager. — Brooke Fraser

Obviously, it was a big life change for me and quite a shock to suddenly have these songs I'd written in my bedroom as a far-too-intense teenager all over the airwaves and see my face on buses, especially in a small country like New Zealand, but at the same time it was such a thrill and an honour knowing that my music was reaching people. — Brooke Fraser

It is as if I knew you before we spoke
Do our hearts know something we don't?
Conspiring, converging without giving us any say — Brooke Fraser

I had a pretty regular childhood, with a rad mum who taught me to love reading and thinking and laughing, and (as far as I was concerned) a regular dad who drove trucks for a living and did radio interviews on weekends and got stopped in the street a lot when we went out. — Brooke Fraser

There is truth in little corners of our lives. There are hints of it in songs and children's eyes. It's familiar, like an ancient lullaby; What do I live for? If we've eyes to see ... If we've ears to hear ... To find it in our hearts and mouths the word that saves is near. Shed that shallow skin ... Come and live again ... Leave all you were before ... To believe is to begin. — Brooke Fraser