“I just don't care that much about the band name. I'm not so precious a...” — Ezra Furman Quote

“I just don't care that much about the band name. I'm not so precious about it. The Harpoons were different people, but The Boy-Friends were and are the same people as The Visions. I changed it to The Visions when we made 'Transangelic Exodus' because I guess we didn't feel so friendly and boyish anymore.”

“We music fans go to shows for transcendence; it's like being called to prayer.”

“My Jewishness and queerness are very interwoven, and, although they sometimes conflict culturally, intellectually and spiritually they deepen one another for me.”

“I was silver-white by the time I was 35, but having grey hair makes me look washed out. My wife and son have both said that grey hair doesn't suit me because I have a boyish face.”

“Hedi Slimane told me I was boyish in his eyes. For him femininity and masculinity are the same thing, the difference is not so interesting, he said.”

“I have brothers, and that so-called boyish quality was something that I was deathly self-conscious about when I was younger.”