Ezra Furman

I'm just grateful to people who are willing to admit how bad things feel for them.

— Ezra Furman

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

— Ezra Furman

I love obsessive fandom because I'm an obsessive fan who flips out over music.

— Ezra Furman

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

— Ezra Furman

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

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

— Ezra Furman

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

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

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

— Ezra Furman

I heard the Velvet Underground and that changed things when I was like, 15.

— Ezra Furman

We need a lot more visibility of queer people in public life. People gotta get used to it.

— Ezra Furman

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

Far from being a showbiz gimmick, for me dressing as I please has signalled the end of a lifelong performance of straightforward…

— Ezra Furman

The Bible was so revolutionary and against all that came before it. It was a force for siding with the oppressed and…

— Ezra Furman

Not only am I a shy person, I take a little while to say what I mean, especially in a social situation,…

— Ezra Furman

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

— Ezra Furman

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

— Ezra Furman

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

— Ezra Furman

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

— Ezra Furman

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

— Ezra Furman

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

— Ezra Furman

I want to make the greatest record ever made. It's the only thing I can think about.

— Ezra Furman

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

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

— Ezra Furman

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

— Ezra Furman