Ezra Furman

If you're trying to deal with being a marginalized person and trying to confront a larger population that isn't the same as you, you can be friendly about it, and invite everybody in, or you can be angry about it and be hostile and attack the systems that you want to destabilize. ”

To have knowledge of Judaism and to be a religious Jew or an interested Jew, is to have a doorway into a worldview that is entirely alien to the rest of the world's worldview. ”

My favourite artists are the ones who are human, and you know they're not in a failure-proof environment. ”

I want to be a force that tries to revive the human spirit rather than crush it, to open possibilities rather than close them down. Sometimes a passionate negativity is the best way to do that. ”

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. ”

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

Desperate times make for desperate songs. ”

It's always about staying competitive with myself... Popularity is something that may happen from time to time, and I don't trust it and I don't think it means too much. I'm going for greatness. ”

We take a lot of inspiration from punk rock and early rock 'n' roll from the '50s and early '60s. ”

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? ”