"The universe contains vastly more order than Earth-life could ever demand. All those distant galaxies, irrelevant for our existence, seem as equally well ordered as our own."

“My ex-husband has been one of my best teachers, and I believe that the areas of our life and the people in our lives that present the most problems to us - they really are our best teachers. They're teaching us lessons that we have to learn anyway, and if we don't accept the lesson from them, there will just be another teacher to step in and take their place.”

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

Source : "Zola Jesus Is A Romantic". Interview with Leila Brillson, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 21, 2011.

“I'd like to see Paris before I die.”

“My main goal, and it's a big one, is that every child has a chance to get close to music - as a right - that as they have access to food, health, and education, they get the chance to have art and culture - especially music.”

Source : "Why Music, Part 5: Music and Education" by Frank Fitzpatrick, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2012.

“Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for fancier people. I aspired, but mostly I wrote for myself. I wrote because it made me happy.”

“It's changed dramatically in our lifetimes. Communism is gone, so now the global war is framed in religious terms. Fundamentalist religion is rampant on all sides of this war. It casts a very dark shadow over non-fundamentalist religion.”

“I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.”

“Our senses are never more awakened to our need for His love than when our need is most exposed.”