A biography for Ezra Furmanhasn’t been written yet.
“I'm not so adept at social media. It's not my forte.”
“I love obsessive fandom because I'm an obsessive fan who flips out over music.”
“I get stage fright really bad sometimes, so touring has been hard on me in a lot of ways. But despite that, I love performing.”
“I first got into music when I heard punk, and it was saying maybe it's OK if you don't live up to the expectations various authorities have for you.”
“I think of myself as someone who's trying to be a great songwriter and a great performer. And I mean really great.”
“Part of what you hear when somebody says something awful to you is like, 'They're right, I look ridiculous, why am I dressed this way, I should go home and change.' For me that voice is always in my head, right around the corner.”
“I want to make the greatest record ever made. It's the only thing I can think about.”
“You have to make a character of yourself if you're going to be known to strangers.”
“I grew up attending a Conservative day school, Solomon Schechter, until I was about 14, and going to a Reconstructionist synagogue.”
“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.”
“I've always been drawn to ambiguity in pop music.”
“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.”
“I wear what I want to wear and appear on stage as myself.”
“I'm a shy person whose very presence has become a confrontation. I think that's true of a lot of queer people.”
“Once you admit how bad it feels to live in a broken society, you can start to resist it, and imagine a better one.”
“A lot of bands break through with their third record: the White Stripes, the Clash, the Replacements.”
“Desperate times make for desperate songs.”
“I think of myself as a tomgirl. A boy who's girly in every presentational aspect. And I play guitar and write good songs.”
“Being in a rock n' roll group, or being a musician, it is in conflict in some serious cultural ways with being an observant Jew, but in a conceptual way, for me, they go together real well.”
“I think I'm becoming a climate activist.”