"As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice."

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Source : Interview with Elliott Sharp, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2011.

Zola Jesus

#Children Quotes #Emotional Quotes #Voice Quotes

“Rollin' down the street, smokin' indo, sippin' on gin an juice Lay back with my mind on my money and my money on my mind.”
“I wake up hip-hop, Go to sleep hip-hop, Dream 'bout hip-hop, 'Cause I AM HIP-HOP.”
“The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals.”
“At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.”
“I have no problem with religion, and I grew up with a strong curiosity about spiritual matters, but my searching took me away from church and community worship to the internal journey. Before my recovery began, I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter.”
“The words come. Usually, it's a long time before they come. And then when they start to come, it doesn't take so long for it to be finished. It takes a long time to begin. And then it sort of gets finished.”
“I think more than anything, people just want to be understood.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.”

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