Ezra Furman Quotes

At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since.

Writing songs helped me figure out how to communicate with other people. I finally figured out that if I could express something in a song, I could probably express it in my real life, too.

Writing makes you more human.

I am always writing to myself.

I try as hard as I can to write from a personal place and be genuine.

...Listen to your own thoughts and feelings very carefully, be aware of your observations, and learn to value them. When you're a teenager—and even when you're older—lots of people will try to tell you what to think and feel. Try to stand still inside all of that and hear your own voice. It's yours and only yours, it's unique and worth of your attention, and if you cultivate it properly, it might just make you a writer.

Out of frustration, I say things. Now, people listen to me so much I can say it under my breath and everybody hears me... I said in the past that I'm a work in progress, and I feel like I'm progressing.

I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do.

Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

I try to put all I am as a person into what I do. My intelligence, my emotion. I've done that in everything.

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.

If you write something that's personal, there's going to be elements of yourself in it.

I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about.

I began working quite young, writing, growing, maturing, always striving to top myself - to make people laugh hard at things they know and believe deep in their hearts to be true.

I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.

I write to express my thoughts, my feelings. I want people to think.

I try to find what is closest to me in the character. There's many sides to personality, but it's a matter of, do you entertain those specific areas of your personality, or are you afraid to entertain them?

Outside of family, writing is essential. To me, it's like breathing.

I write for myself things that I've gone through.

I've noticed that the more I open up, the more I learn.

If your character doesn't express himself or doesn't feel confident expressing himself, then you don't express yourself.

I think that I write about stuff that others don't write about. I don't have a bunch of love songs cuz I don't really have much boy experience. I just write about what I am actually going through in my real life.

I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality.

I guess, just being in a group, I had never thought to question my individual artistry.