Ezra Furman

I'm not an actor.

— Ezra Furman

I wear what I want to wear and appear on stage as myself.

— Ezra Furman

More visibility is more power, but more vulnerability.

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I was rather obsessed with angels.

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I love it when people write rapturously about music they love.

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I'm not so adept at social media. It's not my forte.

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I'm a big fan of Louis CK - I think he's a master of standup.

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I always felt like I had a punk album waiting to be made.

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I think I'm becoming a climate activist.

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If I can see the sunrise - and I usually don't - I like to. I'm a big fan of the sun.

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I write good songs out of fear... fear of failure. Because if they're not good enough, you feel yourself starting to fall.

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I take it hard whenever anything happens that makes, I guess, queer people feel less safe and less welcome in the world.

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It's one of the guiding philosophies of my life - not fearing any authority on earth.

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We music fans go to shows for transcendence; it's like being called to prayer.

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I don't really worship the album 'Transformer.' It's not the best thing that Lou Reed has done.

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I like going to bed early and getting up early, but that doesn't happen on tour.

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Ezra Furman And The Boy-Friends was a band with a specific mission - to be a really good rock'n'roll band. And we…

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There is something embarrassing about asking for money, but if I hadn't done that, I would have not continued to be a…

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I wanted to get a guitar [when I was 13] so I could play punk songs because kid taught me power chords…

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I'm certainly not interested in religion for religion's sake or for some kind of structure or stabilizing force. Religion is supposed to…

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My Jewishness and queerness are very interwoven, and, although they sometimes conflict culturally, intellectually and spiritually they deepen one another for me.

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I had so many secrets and so much social repression throughout my life. I guess I'm just a shy person and feel…

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As children my grandparents were refugees. Eventually they got to the U.S. - in 1950 or something. They grew up as refugees.…

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I'm in this effort to unify my life and to live day to day in a disciplined way, to be real at…

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I really don't care about what anyone says unless they are also gender-nonconforming. Then I really listen. I love the solidarity felt…

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I was like, "Who the hell is Bob Dylan?" I was going to learn one song to appease my mom and alphabetically…

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I just don't care that much about the band name. I'm not so precious about it. The Harpoons were different people, but…

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If you're trying to deal with being a marginalized person and trying to confront a larger population that isn't the same as…

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I think I'm gradually becoming a more politically aware person.

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I've always been drawn to ambiguity in pop music.

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I guess I just do being a man different than some.

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I am frustrated at misconceptions of me, and being cast in a role.

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Desperate times make for desperate songs.

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It's a good feeling to not tell people what's going on.

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The first music I loved on my own was punk.

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I'm going to make the music I wish someone else was making.

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I write all the time and I try to think of ideas all the time.

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We punk fans have so much energy to give to the fight against injustice, i.e. the abuse of the poor by the…

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I believe an authentic Judaism would legislate total equality for queer people.

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People get stigmatised for their bodies and for their differences. Then those people become very vulnerable.

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