A biography for David Furnishhasn’t been written yet.
“I'd spent my twenties trying to be everything to everybody. I had my family, my straight friends, and I was starting to develop a gay circle of friends. I was seeing some men, seeing some women, and trying to sort it all out.”
“When Stephen Harper was elected as the new Conservative Prime Minister - and he talked about repealing gay marriage and putting it to a vote in the House of Commons - Elton and I talked about getting married in Canada to make a statement, for ideological and political reasons.”
“We want to make sure that our boys realize that there are all different kinds of families, and all families are great.”
“I think we all need to believe in hope: that if we have dreams and if we have ambitions and if we have skills and talents - that if you really put your heart into something and you work at it hard enough - that you can make your dreams come true.”
“I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art.”
“I ran away from small-town Canada to London; I ran away from my family because I didn't think I could be the person I was.”
“I studied really, really hard, rather boringly.”
“The past is past; what's gone on has gone on.”
“People go forward in life. Bitterness and grudges and resentments only poison it.”