I write good songs out of fear... fear of failure. Because if they're not good enough, you feel yourself starting to fall. — Ezra Furman Failure Copy Share Image
If I can see the sunrise - and I usually don't - I like to. I'm a big fan of the sun. — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
I take it hard whenever anything happens that makes, I guess, queer people feel less safe and less welcome in the world. — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
It's one of the guiding philosophies of my life - not fearing any authority on earth. — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
We music fans go to shows for transcendence; it's like being called to prayer. — Ezra Furman Being Copy Share Image
I don't really worship the album 'Transformer.' It's not the best thing that Lou Reed has done. — Ezra Furman Album Copy Share Image
I get stage fright really bad sometimes, so touring has been hard on me in a lot of ways. But despite that,… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
I heard the Velvet Underground and that changed things when I was like, 15. — 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
I'm in this effort to unify my life and to live day to day in a disciplined way, to be real at… — Ezra Furman Day Copy Share Image
As children my grandparents were refugees. Eventually they got to the U.S. - in 1950 or something. They grew up as refugees.… — Ezra Furman Children Copy Share Image
My focus is matters of the heart and matters of the spirit, emotion and passion and stuff like that. But I think… — Ezra Furman Focus Copy Share Image
I really don't care about what anyone says unless they are also gender-nonconforming. Then I really listen. I love the solidarity felt… — Ezra Furman Failure Copy Share Image
We spent a lot of time making 'Transangelic Exodus' and toward the end of it, my ability and my love for music… — Ezra Furman Ability Copy Share Image
I don't really believe in trying to erase every Woody Allen movie from history. For one thing, that's kind of unfair to… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
You know, a lot of people have an instinct to downplay the fact that they are performing and be, like, 'There is… — Ezra Furman Being Copy Share Image
What really is wild about rock 'n' roll? Nothing. It's so banal and so part of corporate culture. It threatens to lose… — Ezra Furman Corporate Copy Share Image
Just being gender non-conforming opens you to trouble from strangers. And violence. — Ezra Furman Crime Copy Share Image
I honestly feel like I've been mostly toiling in obscurity until a little bit after 'Day Of the Dog' came out. — Ezra Furman Day Copy Share Image
My two most fervent interests are pop music and traditional Judaism. Hell of a pair of fervent interests. — Ezra Furman Hell 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
You have to make a character of yourself if you're going to be known to strangers. — Ezra Furman Character Copy Share Image
I grew up attending a Conservative day school, Solomon Schechter, until I was about 14, and going to a Reconstructionist synagogue. — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a tomgirl. A boy who's girly in every presentational aspect. And I play guitar and write good… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
The Velvet Underground is probably the best band that's ever existed, assuredly the best American one. — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
A lot of bands break through with their third record: the White Stripes, the Clash, the Replacements. — Ezra Furman Bands Copy Share Image
My bassist Jorgen Jorgensen opened up my life to a lot of great, obscure old soul records. — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
Some part of me hopes for a guardian angel to protect me and other people who need protection. — Ezra Furman Angel Copy Share Image
I'm interested in God. I'm not interested in religion for religion's sake. — Ezra Furman Catholic Copy Share Image
Once you admit how bad it feels to live in a broken society, you can start to resist it, and imagine a… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
I was thinking very carefully about going into education, becoming a teacher, maybe becoming a rabbi. — Ezra Furman Education Copy Share Image
I think most of the work of songwriting is thinking of great phrases - I'm addicted, always on the hunt for a… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
A repressed person overcoming their repression always makes good music. — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
Just being a normal person and having a social life involves a lot of dishonesty for me. — Ezra Furman Corruption Copy Share Image
I feel like my consignment and fear from people pushed me to become a performer. — Ezra Furman Fear Copy Share Image
I don't like the notion that artists have a responsibility to be political. — Ezra Furman Art Copy Share Image
I think I gravitate towards rock 'n' roll as a playground where I can say anything. — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
We need a lot more visibility of queer people in public life. People gotta get used to it. — Ezra Furman Homosexuality Copy Share Image
I'm a shy person whose very presence has become a confrontation. I think that's true of a lot of queer people. — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
