Zola Jesus

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

It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.

I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.

I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we'd have long conversations.

I don't like to get in front of people.

As a writer, I try to do different things, but I'm not going to become a darker artist or turn into Radiohead overnight. I don't think that's my style.