Quotes from Ezra Furman

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

More visibility is more power, but more vulnerability.

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

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

A lot of bands break through with their third record: the White Stripes, the Clash, the Replacements.

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

A repressed person overcoming their repression always makes good music.

If you get into really learning about the roots of monotheism, it was utterly a radical cultural moment. The Bible was so revolutionary and against all that came before it.

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 head. But it has something to do with Lou Reed as a mythic figure: a person who fitted no category, who defied limits and trends and definitions.

It's one of the guiding philosophies of my life - not fearing any authority on earth.

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

One of my goals in making music is to make the world seem bigger, and life seem larger.