Just being gender non-conforming opens you to trouble from strangers. And violence. — Ezra Furman Crime Copy Share Image
I wrote 'My Teeth Hurt' in April 2018 when my teeth hurt and I didn't have dental insurance. — Ezra Furman April Copy Share Image
One of my goals in making music is to make the world seem bigger, and life seem larger. — Ezra Furman Goals Copy Share Image
I'm an amateur at music and an amateur at most things. I like the idea of offering some music and some records… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
I want to be a force that tries to revive the human spirit rather than crush it, to open possibilities rather than… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
Part of what you hear when somebody says something awful to you is like, 'They're right, I look ridiculous, why am I… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
The Bible was so revolutionary and against all that came before it. It was a force for siding with the oppressed and… — Ezra Furman Ancient Copy Share Image
Far from being a showbiz gimmick, for me dressing as I please has signalled the end of a lifelong performance of straightforward… — Ezra Furman Being Copy Share Image
I think [rock'n'roll] essence is what made it good and has a lot in common with what originally made monotheism good -… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
I was pretty much into punk rock and that's all I cared about. I was into Green Day and the Ramones. I… — Ezra Furman Day Copy Share Image
Being in a rock n' roll group, or being a musician, it is in conflict in some serious cultural ways with being… — Ezra Furman Conflict Copy Share Image
My main theme as a songwriter seems to be a feeling of homelessness, of being in motion. The feeling of being somehow… — Ezra Furman Being Copy Share Image
God is close to the brokenhearted, and God lifts up the lonely. That was a message that was explicitly quoted to me… — Ezra Furman Brokenhearted Copy Share Image
I've been writing songs since I was a teenager, so one kind of song I've written a lot is about, I don't… — Ezra Furman Feelings Copy Share Image
I always maintain that artists do not have any responsibility to do anything except cause no harm and do whatever we want… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
I think there's a large worry in queer communities about imitating straight people, when queerness has its own identity and maybe can… — Ezra Furman Fear Copy Share Image
Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan I heard when I was 13. It was one of those things where it was like,… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
Judaism is a way of thinking, more than anything else, that I think is entirely distinct, and the more you know of… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
If you get into really learning about the roots of monotheism, it was utterly a radical cultural moment. The Bible was so… — Ezra Furman Bible Copy Share Image
Lou Reed was an ideal figure to me. He was bisexual, like me, and seemed to inhabit an ambiguous middle place on… — Ezra Furman Bisexual Copy Share Image
I feel like one thing that messed me up was living in a homophobic and transphobic society, and just being the object… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
In terms of keeping kosher, I've basically just been vegetarian. I want to be fully vegetarian anyway, though sometimes my mom makes… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
I first got into music when I heard punk, and it was saying maybe it's OK if you don't live up to… — Ezra Furman Expectations Copy Share Image
Not only am I a shy person, I take a little while to say what I mean, especially in a social situation,… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
I don't think I'll ever be able to fully explain the way that the Velvet Underground's records opened a door in my… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
Sometimes there's a day where I don't feel good being out in the world, and I feel unsafe in the world in… — Ezra Furman Anxiety Copy Share Image
Listening to songs is like eating and writing songs is like vomiting. You're putting a ton of stuff in, it combines in… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
I was a suburban kid who fancied myself somehow intellectual. I was into punk rock but I couldn't get into the subcultural… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
I could write a joke song really easily, but I think something that might be true for my generation is that there's… — Ezra Furman Generation Copy Share Image
Learning that someone is gay, queer, trans, doesn't tell you much by itself. They could be any kind of person aside from… — Ezra Furman Gay Copy Share Image
It's always about staying competitive with myself... Popularity is something that may happen from time to time, and I don't trust it… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
![“I think [rock'n'roll] essence is what made it good and has a lot in common with what originally made monotheism good - it's against everything that is fixed, all the social structures that you can't go past.” quote by Ezra Furman](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/658/ezra-furman-4439_common_i-think-rock-n-roll-essence-is-what-made_680749.jpg)
