Brooke Fraser Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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.

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#3. 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.

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

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

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

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#7. 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.

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#8. 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!

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#9. 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!

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#10. 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.

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#11. 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.

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#12. 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!

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#13. 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!

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

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#15. 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.

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#16. 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.

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#17. 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.

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#18. Now that I have seen I am responsible, faith without deeds is dead.

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

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#20. 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.

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#21. 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

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#22. 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.

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#23. 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.

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