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?

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.

When you fall in love, you become weak.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

There can only be one Queen Bey.

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!

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

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

I think I'm making music that's pretty universal.

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

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

I like to remind myself that everything is meaningless.

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.

I know for sure that nothing matters.