Moby

For me my biggest inspiration is trying to make music that effects me as much as the music made by my heroes.

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Honestly, the most vulnerable part of my life is probably just honest expression, as cliché as that might sound.

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I was never encouraged to believe anything. I was brought up in a profoundly agnostic or pantheistic community.

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Music can always serve a role in people's lives when it's emotional and warm and inviting and beautiful.

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Some of the songs I've made, I'm really disappointed in how I mixed them.

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When someone comes to me and says the music I've made has affected them emotionally, that's the most gratifying part of my…

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A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music.

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I think it'd be great if Prince made an album of just romantic, slow ballads.

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I joined Facebook purely so I could play online Scrabble. You have eight tiles instead of seven, so you tend to have…

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My interest in gospel music and liturgical art and Biblically-inspired literature has nothing to do with organised religion and everything to do…

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If you don't want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed ot tortured, then you shouldn't condone such behaviour towards anyone, be they…

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When I was fifteen years old, the only distinction in music my friends and I made was [that] there's music made by…

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I find London really exciting but there's a lot of vicious success here. Like New York, there's a lot of incredibly successful…

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Sit down, close your eyes, and think about dogs for ten minutes. On a very clear, physiological, and neurochemical level, your body…

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I just have to remind myself that my daily quotidie in life has almost nothing to do with any aspect of my…

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Doing interviews and touring are two ways that I can try to bring my music to people. It can be tiring, but…

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More often than not, whenever gossip has been written about me, the gossip is more interesting than the reality. I know some…

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You can't find an uglier urban environment than the centre of Hollywood, but then you go to Griffith Park, you go to…

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At 3 o'clock in the morning on tour when you're sober is a lot less fun than 3 a.m. when you're drunk…

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LA is such a crumbling mess of a city. Basically in all my years of travelling, I haven't found another city in…

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I learned in the last few years that it's really unhappy and really unsustainable to try and base your well being on…

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In some ways it's hard to see electronic music as a genre because the word "electronic" just refers to how it's made.…

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I spent so much of my life reading about spirituality and reading about neuroscience and trying different meditation practices. It's a really…

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There's really no reason for any musician, writer, actor to ever take themselves seriously. If you work in a needle exchange, take…

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I was trying to convince myself I could learn to be gay - but no. That's one of my great regrets.

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The only sort of descriptive adjective or catch phrase for my music would be 'eclectic.'

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“Because we find something distasteful is not justification enough for us to deem it criminal.”

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If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives.

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I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive.

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I truly don't judge other people's actions. But I think that factory farming is an abomination.

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I find myself for whatever reason unable to live in the apartment I renovate and have to sell.

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I've done the performing monkey stuff and massive breakdowns, it's just they weren't documented.

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I'm not sure how healthy it is to shoot police helicopters with bazookas.

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People assume that somehow fame and wealth will keep mortality at bay.

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My goal is to make one-not a hodgepodge, but just the sort of record that I would want to listen to.

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Who wakes up when they're worth £120million and says, 'I'm unhappy today but if only I had an extra £2million!'

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I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.

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I'm straight, but I love going to house music clubs and flirting with women and gay men.

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A vegan who beats his wife is far further down the ethical ladder than a meat eater who's kind to his children.

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Old people go to the polls because they can't get erections, young people stay home, do drugs and have sex.

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