I run into a lot of people who are instantly filled with ridicule at the idea that someone wouldn’t eat meat. – Moby
If Nirvana had remained a small, underground punk rock band, Kurt Cobain would still be alive. And he’d probably be living in Seattle, getting kind of fat and balding, be relatively happy and producing records for other people. – Moby
I don’t have children, but I imagine if parents are really pushed on the subject, they probably have favorite children. – Moby
The strange thing about hotel rooms is that they look familiar and seem familiar and have many of the accoutrements that seem domestic and familiar, but they are really weird, alien and anonymous places. – Moby
You can sit down with Reason or Ableton and literally in a couple of hours make a very good-sounding record. But then a lot of people become contented with that, rather than pushing themselves to making something that sounds great. – Moby
When I was growing up, albums were my closest friends, as sad as that may sound – Joy Division’s ‘Closer,’ or Echo and the Bunnymen’s ‘Heaven Up Here’… I had a more intimate relationship with those records than I did with most of the people in my life. – Moby
If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren’t going to be interested. – Moby
I’m envious of people who can sleep as long as they want. I have the circadian rhythm of a farmer. – Moby
My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing. – Moby
I remember New York in the ’80s as a place with vacant lots that would eventually give over to nature. Weeds would grow up, squirrels would move in. That entropy is gone now. It’s too expensive to let a vacant lot go natural. – Moby
I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to. – Moby
Whenever I’ve had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that’s when you learn. – Moby
I’ve made records that everyone has hated and I’ve loved, and made records that everyone has loved and I’ve deemed, at best, mediocre. – Moby
There are a lot of musicians who are still desperately trying to pretend that it’s 1998 and by having a huge marketing campaign, they somehow believe that they can sell 10 million records. That’s delusional. No one sells 10 million records. The days of musicians getting rich off of selling records are done. – Moby
When playing big festivals, I tend to play big, over the top techno tracks, like hands in the air songs that make sense being played in front of 30,000 people. I steer away from subtlety in the interests of big bombastic dance music. – Moby
A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music. – Moby
It’s sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I’m ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences. – Moby
If you look at someone like Joe Strummer or John Lennon, when you heard their music you knew that they wrote it and they cared about it. – Moby
People love their favorite records. And I aspire to make a record someone might be able to love in that way. – Moby
When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched obscure movies and only listened to obscure music. – Moby
I’m obsessed with politics, and I talk about it any chance I can get. I have strong opinions about how the world should be run. – Moby
When I say, ‘I love Christ and love the teachings of Christ,’ I mean that in the most simple and naive way. I’m not saying I’m right. – Moby
I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist. – Moby
