Zola Jesus Quotes

I feel like humans are a disease. It's a hard thing to communicate in a pop song. I mean, who wants to hear that? — Zola Jesus

My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function. — Zola Jesus

When you fall in love, you become weak. — Zola Jesus

Charles Portis shows his mastery of place and the more complicated subtleties of time. — Donna Tartt

No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it. — Zola Jesus

I don't know why people think I'm a Goth - that's a misconception. — Zola Jesus

From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles. — Pat Metheny

I feel like I am alone when I am in the presence of those I love. It is so freeing and comfortable, you become one with them. — Zola Jesus

You are born and then you die, but in between you can do anything you want. It's society that creates rules for us, but you can break out of that. — Zola Jesus

The most important thing for us to do as beings is to be aware of our position in the world on a micro and macro level. — Zola Jesus

And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse. — Zola Jesus

There can only be one Queen Bey. — Zola Jesus

People don't really understand who I am. They always think that I'm very dark or depressed, but it couldn't be further from the truth! — Zola Jesus

Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not. — Dan Gertler

I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me. — Zola Jesus

If only everything hurt as little as a blow to the face. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

But, however many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead, or rather not alive. — Richard Dawkins

I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18. — Zola Jesus

I think I'm making music that's pretty universal. — Zola Jesus

I try to create songs that are really massive and intense, but at the same time remaining honest and raw. — Zola Jesus

The only reason I would write a break-up song is because my own problem of allowing myself to relate to people. — Zola Jesus

I like to remind myself that everything is meaningless. — Zola Jesus

I don't think that the status of a show, big or small, should affect a person's performance. — Sophie Turner

We do not stop running because we get old, we get old because we stop running — Christopher McDougall

People will love you and support you when it's beneficial. — Nicki Minaj

It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do. — Zola Jesus

I know for sure that nothing matters. — Zola Jesus