Latest Brooke Fraser Quotes from Interviews

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• The God we worship is Jesus - He is the image of the invisible God - and if we dare seek Him for who He really is rather than pursue an idea of Him that fits into our tidy boxes, He will blow our minds.

  Brooke Fraser

  Jesus, Blow, Mind

  Source: www.christianpost.com

• Those who have had the most impact and influence throughout history and certainly the people who've had the most impact and influence on me personally have been basically entirely unaware of any such influence and made their chief concern their personal devotion and obedience, and the pleasure of God in the hidden things of their lives.

  Brooke Fraser

  People, Influence, Devotion

  Source: www.christianpost.com

• You can analyze all you want but you can never explain away the God factor. Sometimes God just decides to breathe on something and it's completely His prerogative.

  Brooke Fraser

  Sometimes, Breathe

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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

  Brooke Fraser

  Song, Book, Writing

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

  Brooke Fraser

  Writing, Voice, Style

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

  Brooke Fraser

  Song, People, Albums

• 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

  Real, Artist, Who I Am

• 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

  Thinking, Kind, Cool Music

• I recognise my responsibility, and it's funny when I read people who say they never asked to be a role model, and I understand that, but as soon as you have influence over people, you have a responsibility with what you do with that influence.

  Brooke Fraser

  Responsibility, People, Role Models

• I've always recognised that I have influence, whether I like it or not, and that I can use it to do something good.

  Brooke Fraser

  Use, Influence, I Can

• 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

  Skins, Adults, Down And

• I think I was always an old soul, even as a teenager.

  Brooke Fraser

  Teenager, Thinking, Soul

• 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

  Adults, Albums, Needs

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

  Brooke Fraser

  Thinking, Places To Go, Los Angeles

• 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

  Exercise, Sick, Cost

• 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

  Children, People, Connections

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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

  Mean, Kids, Water

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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

  Writing, Animal, Different

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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

  Night, Support, Gentleman

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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

  Country, Song, Life Changing

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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

  Thinking, Literature, Paper

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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

  School, Thinking, Singing

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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

  School, Competition, Labels

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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

  Song, Writing, Singing

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk