Brooke Fraser Quotes

I don’t consider that my life began until I met Christ

Three years ago, i was eighteen years old and the acting editor/music editor of the magazine that finds itself in your hot little hands right now.

Little did I know, that less than a year later, I would be the one fielding questions from the press as the songs I’d written in my bedroom hit #1 in mainstream radio; one after another. Since then, my life has moved at quite a speed.

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.

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.

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.