Ezra Furman

I'm not an actor.

— Ezra Furman

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

— Ezra Furman

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

— Ezra Furman

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

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The first music I loved on my own was punk.

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

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I don't like the notion that artists have a responsibility to be political.

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I feel like my consignment and fear from people pushed me to become a performer.

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I think I gravitate towards rock 'n' roll as a playground where I can say anything.

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Just being a normal person and having a social life involves a lot of dishonesty for me.

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A repressed person overcoming their repression always makes good music.

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I'm interested in God. I'm not interested in religion for religion's sake.

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I think most of the work of songwriting is thinking of great phrases - I'm addicted, always on the hunt for a…

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I was thinking very carefully about going into education, becoming a teacher, maybe becoming a rabbi.

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Judaism is a way of thinking, more than anything else, that I think is entirely distinct, and the more you know of…

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Lou Reed was an ideal figure to me. He was bisexual, like me, and seemed to inhabit an ambiguous middle place on…

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If you get into really learning about the roots of monotheism, it was utterly a radical cultural moment. The Bible was so…

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I always maintain that artists do not have any responsibility to do anything except cause no harm and do whatever we want…

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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…

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I think there's a large worry in queer communities about imitating straight people, when queerness has its own identity and maybe can…

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Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan I heard when I was 13. It was one of those things where it was like,…

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Being in a rock n' roll group, or being a musician, it is in conflict in some serious cultural ways with being…

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

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

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More visibility is more power, but more vulnerability.

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I was rather obsessed with angels.

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

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

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I think I'm becoming a climate activist.

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

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

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Once you admit how bad it feels to live in a broken society, you can start to resist it, and imagine a…

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I'm trying to be an activist, and I think of that as separate from my work as an artist. But it isn't.

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Chuck Berry invented rock 'n' roll. He was one of the best songwriters of the 20th century.

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