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. Ezra Furman Read Quote
Judaism is a way of thinking, more than anything else, that I think is entirely distinct, and the more you know of it, the more you can enter into that kind of thinking. Ezra Furman Read Quote
My Jewishness and queerness are very interwoven, and, although they sometimes conflict culturally, intellectually and spiritually they deepen one another for me. Ezra Furman Read Quote
My two most fervent interests are pop music and traditional Judaism. Hell of a pair of fervent interests. Ezra Furman Read Quote
I think of myself as a tomgirl. A boy who’s girly in every presentational aspect. And I play guitar and write good songs. Ezra Furman Read Quote
My bassist Jorgen Jorgensen opened up my life to a lot of great, obscure old soul records. Ezra Furman Read Quote
We spent a lot of time making ‘Transangelic Exodus’ and toward the end of it, my ability and my love for music – that is, just garage music, direct and immediate – started to feel neglected. Ezra Furman Read Quote
