When you fall in love, you become weak.

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.

Books, I found, had the power to make timestand still, retreat or fly into the future.

Happiness has no time limits or conditions

If we focus on the problems of life, we will be paralysed

God has given you all you need to fight against the enemy.

This may sound a bit naive, but I got here by believing in big dreams.

That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

To be an actor, a lot of times it's a strange combination of high confidence and low self-esteem. Which is a weird combination to have, but I think it's sort of very common among actors.

I never go back on my word! That's my nindo, my ninja way!

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.

My usual self is a very unusual self.