We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.
And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.
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.
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.
I like to remind myself that everything is meaningless.
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?
The schedule is really crazy and the fans are sometimes kind of crazy, but other than that it's been - it's been cool.
When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but to a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas. I think of the books on library shelves, without their jackets, years old, and a countryish teen-aged boy finding them, and having them speak to him. The review, the stacks in Brentano's, are just hurdles to get over, to place the books on that shelf.
Parenthood is an amazing opportunity to be able to ruin someone from scratch.
It is the policy of the federal government to use all resources at its disposal to make our financial system stronger.