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 only reason I would write a break-up song is because my own problem of allowing myself to relate to people.

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

When you fall in love, you become weak.

Everything I do is a reflection of the duality within me. Musically, I really love things that are very synthetic and unnatural. And I also like the organic and human... the intrinsic, I guess.

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

I like to remind myself that everything is meaningless.