Ezra Furman Quotes
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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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We need a lot more visibility of queer people in public life. People gotta get used to it.
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I think I gravitate towards rock 'n' roll as a playground where I can say anything.
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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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Just being gender non-conforming opens you to trouble from strangers. And violence.
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I always felt like I had a punk album waiting to be made.
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I feel like my consignment and fear from people pushed me to become a performer.
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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 be for God's sake and God is an unpredictable, wild thing.
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My two most fervent interests are pop music and traditional Judaism. Hell of a pair of fervent interests.
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I've always been drawn to ambiguity in pop music.
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What really is wild about rock 'n' roll? Nothing. It's so banal and so part of corporate culture. It threatens to lose all its life.
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My main theme as a songwriter seems to be a feeling of homelessness, of being in motion. The feeling of being somehow unmoored, a radical internal freedom that is very painful and also joyful.
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One of my goals in making music is to make the world seem bigger, and life seem larger.
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Sometimes there's a day where I don't feel good being out in the world, and I feel unsafe in the world in general. And an anxiety about just showing up in the world. It's kind of irrational, but people do say things to me out in the street about how I'm dressed.
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I'm an amateur at music and an amateur at most things. I like the idea of offering some music and some records and a website to people who feel perplexed.
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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 rich, i.e. climate change.
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The Velvet Underground is probably the best band that's ever existed, assuredly the best American one.
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You have to be an anti-racist to not be racist. Because it's just a cultural tide that will pull you into it if you're not swimming against it.
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I don't really believe in trying to erase every Woody Allen movie from history. For one thing, that's kind of unfair to all the people who worked on those movies or albums or whatever it is. What did they do wrong to have their work erased from culture?
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I believe an authentic Judaism would legislate total equality for queer people.
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Listening to songs is like eating and writing songs is like vomiting. You're putting a ton of stuff in, it combines in unpredictable ways, and comes back out in a big mess.
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My bassist Jorgen Jorgensen opened up my life to a lot of great, obscure old soul records.
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I was pretty much into punk rock and that's all I cared about. I was into Green Day and the Ramones. I wanted to get a guitar so I could play punk songs because this kid taught me power chords at summer camp.
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My favourite artists are the ones who are human, and you know they're not in a failure-proof environment.