In the course of my life, I’ve made some happy songs but it’s the more sort of like pathos-laden, emotional, melancholic music that either I make or that other people make that really resonates with me. – Moby
When I do have time to work on music, I’m kind of selfish, and would rather work on my own stuff than someone else’s. – Moby
Being a vegan is pretty easy these days, as almost every town and city has health food stores and vegetarian-friendly restaurants. – Moby
David Lynch is my friend, and I love his movies and his art and his music. Few things make me happier than working with him. – Moby
But on a utilitarian level, I realize that to try to accomplish the greatest good for the greatest number of people, sometimes we have to become salesmen for what we believe, and part of being a salesman is being effective. – Moby
As music became more profitable in the 1990s, it seemed like it attracted a lot of people who were just interested in the financial aspect of it, which is depressing. – Moby
In the long, nonillustrious history of white people pilfering African American culture, have I just perpetrated that? I’m motivated by a love for the music and by a love of the performances, and I really hope I haven’t done anything bad. – Moby
It’s enshrined in our Constitution that an individual has a right to release information and disseminate information that makes the powers that be uncomfortable. – Moby
Musically, New York is a big influence on me. Walk down the street for five minutes and you’ll hear homeless punk rockers, people playing Caribbean music and reggae, sacred Islamic music and Latino music, so many different types of music. – Moby
That is not all I need. I need dogs. A house filled with dogs and a smart, funny, kind, loving girlfriend or wife. – Moby
I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He’s got such a wicked sense of humor. – Moby
There’s a fairly extensive network of musicians on tour who are all trying to stay sober, and we generally reach out to each other and offer support when and where we can. – Moby
I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance. – Moby
There are a lot of people in the animal rights movement who can be very passionate and aggressive, and I applaud people’s passion, but when people are judgmental and aggressive, all you end up doing is getting other people to turn away in irritation. To change people’s minds, you have to respect the people you’re talking to. – Moby
My mother and I were on welfare and food stamps until I was 18, so I’ve always had this ethos of, like, ‘try and make a little bit of money now because you don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow.’ – Moby
I have no patience for anyone who thinks they’ve figured things out, no patience for people who think they’re right at the expense of everyone else. The world is too connected and too complicated to conform to any of our rigid ideas of what it should be like. – Moby
I’d much rather go out and have music randomly presented to me by different DJs than stay home and discover it on my own. – Moby
Many of my friends back in New York and elsewhere have a glib or dismissive attitude toward Los Angeles. It’s a place of strip malls and traffic and not much else, in their opinion. – Moby
I’d just rather have a really sharp, interesting, smart gay son than some big dumb hetero meathead. – Moby
At the risk of sounding pedestrian, I’ll be completely honest: the first thing I do in the morning is check Google News, partially because it seems sort of random and unbiased and partially because I tend to stay in hotels that don’t necessarily have the fastest Internet connections. – Moby
The term ‘renaissance man’ is always bandied about. I don’t think that applies to me. You think about Leonardo da Vinci, and he was a painter and a physicist and an architect, and that is a true renaissance man. – Moby
Scotland is one of my favourite places to perform: it’s really something special. Scottish audiences are just so enthusiastic; their approach to dance music just feels similar to my own somehow. – Moby
When I went to university, I was a philosophy major, but because I’m not very bright I chose to study philosophy at a performing arts school, maybe because the philosophy program there wasn’t too rigorous or challenging. – Moby
Somehow, magically, I’ve become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise. – Moby
I walk out my front door in New York and I’m out on the street and there are people everywhere. L.A. is so much more spread out, so it’s really easy in L.A. to have a little more isolation and to just not see as many people. – Moby
