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

- 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

When you fall in love, you become weak.

- Zola Jesus

I like to remind myself that everything is meaningless.

- Zola Jesus

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

- 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

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

- 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

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