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 More Quotes by Brooke Fraser More Quotes From 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 albums adults needs I think I was always an old soul, even as a teenager. Brooke Fraser teenager soul thinking 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 weekend dad reading I'm a bit of a book worm, so a lot of the songs I write are inspired by books. Brooke Fraser writing song book 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 competition labels school 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 different writing animal You don't normally think of Los Angeles as a place to go to get away. Brooke Fraser places-to-go los-angeles thinking I feel like I always have to have a song on my album that people can use in their weddings. Brooke Fraser albums song people 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 musician people thinking 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 singing writing song