Zola Jesus Quotes

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

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.

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

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

There can only be one Queen Bey.

When you fall in love, you become weak.

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

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

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!

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.

Everything I do is a reflection of the duality within me. Musically, I really love things that are very synthetic and unnatural. And I also like the organic and human... the intrinsic, I guess.

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.

I know for sure that nothing matters.

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

I like to remind myself that everything is meaningless.

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

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.

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?

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.