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I was rather obsessed with angels.
Desperate times make for desperate songs.
I've always been drawn to ambiguity in pop music.
I guess I just do being a man different than some.
I'm not so adept at social media. It's not my forte.
More visibility is more power, but more vulnerability.
It's a good feeling to not tell people what's going on.
I wear what I want to wear and appear on stage as myself.
I'm a big fan of Louis CK - I think he's a master of standup.
I think I'm gradually becoming a more politically aware person.
I am frustrated at misconceptions of me, and being cast in a role.
A repressed person overcoming their repression always makes good music.
I'm interested in God. I'm not interested in religion for religion's sake.
I don't like the notion that artists have a responsibility to be political.
I heard the Velvet Underground and that changed things when I was like, 15.
We music fans go to shows for transcendence; it's like being called to prayer.
I love obsessive fandom because I'm an obsessive fan who flips out over music.
I believe an authentic Judaism would legislate total equality for queer people.
I'm just grateful to people who are willing to admit how bad things feel for them.
You have to make a character of yourself if you're going to be known to strangers.
Just being gender non-conforming opens you to trouble from strangers. And violence.
I think I gravitate towards rock 'n' roll as a playground where I can say anything.
It's one of the guiding philosophies of my life - not fearing any authority on earth.
If I can see the sunrise - and I usually don't - I like to. I'm a big fan of the sun.
Just being a normal person and having a social life involves a lot of dishonesty for me.
My bassist Jorgen Jorgensen opened up my life to a lot of great, obscure old soul records.
We need a lot more visibility of queer people in public life. People gotta get used to it.
Chuck Berry invented rock 'n' roll. He was one of the best songwriters of the 20th century.
I wrote 'My Teeth Hurt' in April 2018 when my teeth hurt and I didn't have dental insurance.
Some part of me hopes for a guardian angel to protect me and other people who need protection.
I don't really worship the album 'Transformer.' It's not the best thing that Lou Reed has done.
We take a lot of inspiration from punk rock and early rock 'n' roll from the '50s and early '60s.
A lot of bands break through with their third record: the White Stripes, the Clash, the Replacements.
I was thinking very carefully about going into education, becoming a teacher, maybe becoming a rabbi.
The Velvet Underground is probably the best band that's ever existed, assuredly the best American one.
I'm trying to be an activist, and I think of that as separate from my work as an artist. But it isn't.
My favourite artists are the ones who are human, and you know they're not in a failure-proof environment.
My two most fervent interests are pop music and traditional Judaism. Hell of a pair of fervent interests.
People get stigmatised for their bodies and for their differences. Then those people become very vulnerable.
I'm a shy person whose very presence has become a confrontation. I think that's true of a lot of queer people.
I honestly feel like I've been mostly toiling in obscurity until a little bit after 'Day Of the Dog' came out.
I take it hard whenever anything happens that makes, I guess, queer people feel less safe and less welcome in the world.
I think of myself as a tomgirl. A boy who's girly in every presentational aspect. And I play guitar and write good songs.
I write good songs out of fear... fear of failure. Because if they're not good enough, you feel yourself starting to fall.
I see a skill developing of writing about not just feelings that I'm feeling, but things that I deeply care about as well.
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.
Ezra Furman And The Boy-Friends was a band with a specific mission - to be a really good rock'n'roll band. And we achieved it.
I think most of the work of songwriting is thinking of great phrases - I'm addicted, always on the hunt for a really great phrase.
I grew up attending a Conservative day school, Solomon Schechter, until I was about 14, and going to a Reconstructionist synagogue.
What really is wild about rock 'n' roll? Nothing. It's so banal and so part of corporate culture. It threatens to lose all its life.