I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.
Zola JesusI feel like humans are a disease. It's a hard thing to communicate in a pop song. I mean, who wants to hear that?
Zola JesusThe only reason I would write a break-up song is because my own problem of allowing myself to relate to people.
Zola JesusA lot of times I have the song inside of me and I have to fight to get it out. I'm a very visual person, so I can see the song but I can't hear it. But I think that if your music becomes a war for it to happen, in the end there's a certain kind of aggression in the music. And I think that's a lot more interesting.
Zola Jesus