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 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.

Be resilient until you complete a task. Challenge yourself and never limit yourself. Stay humble, hopeful, patient, but never quit!

But who, in these modern times, slept well?

The Labor party under my leadership is working to bring the Israeli people together from all nationalities in the spirit of the scroll of independence.

There is more you can do after you pray, but there is nothing you can do until you pray.

You don't have to feel bad to act kindly. Love doesn't stand by, it moves with the speed of clarity.

Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.

From a Buddhist perspective, it is incorrect to always assume that we know what is best.

The truth is, the longer it goes, the harder it gets.

Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.

I treat everyone as a friend, but if they betray me, that's it. They're out of my life in one way or another.