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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I like to remind myself that everything is meaningless.

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

I know for sure that nothing matters.

the name of the husband is one of the strongest insignia of patriarchal power

He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.

It is really weird, things have just been crazy. Everything has happened so quickly I haven't had a chance to think.

I wanted to be an actor, and when that day happened that was sort of like the end. Now let it take me.

That questionable superfluity small beer.

Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be.

He who would eat much must eat little, for by eating less he will live longer, and so be able to eat more.

Nurtured, nourished people, who love themselves and care for themselves, are the delight of the Universe.

I lived my life where I didn't have anything. I lived my life where people picked on me. Now that I am in a different light, I appreciate every moment of it.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.