It's really cool when, in every genre of music, you can listen to a song and know what era it was from.

Blake Lively is my style icon, and she always has rocking clothes and shoes. She keeps it really simple with hair and makeup, and I try to do the same thing.

I feel like I'm still discovering my stage style, but I love - well, I'm not a huge color person onstage, but I am in real life.

When I was 15, my mom and I packed everything up and moved to Nashville so I could pursue my dream in music.

Me and my mom made a deal that if something would happen to help me get my start in music, I could get out of college.

No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too big if it's cherished.

If we are wonderful parents and family members, then there’s really nothing else to prove.

I have never been good at saying goodbyes to people. What else can they offer rather than a reciprocal desolation?

I was a teen star. That's disgusting enough.

Our vision of a sustainable future will only materialize through action taken today.

And the whole is greater than the part.

There is a giant asleep within every man. When that giant awakes, miracles happen.

--you wouldn't have hurt me like this for nothing. So what have I done? How have I wronged you? Tell me.

The desire to perform impedes conversation.

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