Quotes from Ezra Furman

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

In terms of keeping kosher, I've basically just been vegetarian. I want to be fully vegetarian anyway, though sometimes my mom makes chicken soup and I have to eat it. I just love 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.

I think I'm becoming a climate activist.

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

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