Quotes from Ezra Furman

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

More visibility is more power, but more vulnerability.

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.

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

I always felt like I had a punk album waiting to be made.

I was thinking very carefully about going into education, becoming a teacher, maybe becoming a rabbi.

It's a good feeling to not tell people what's going on.

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

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 honestly feel like I've been mostly toiling in obscurity until a little bit after 'Day Of the Dog' came out.

As children my grandparents were refugees. Eventually they got to the U.S. - in 1950 or something. They grew up as refugees. Their earliest memories are of living in a home with their family. It's in my blood, I guess, to have a fear about encouraging fascism.

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.