Quotes from Moby

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.

People have always been resistant to change. If you go back to the 17th, 18th century, playing guitar was frowned upon. When rock n' roll first started, no one took it seriously.

There are a lot of great animal rights organizations who save dogs and save cats, but the Humane Society is actually really good at working with Congress and getting legislation actually passed.

Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same.

'Arbitrary' and 'odd' are the words which best describe the pattern of my career. I'm perpetually baffled by the whole thing.

In a perfect world, I would be 6-foot-3 and have a perfect head of hair and look like Orlando Bloom.

It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If you're a drummer, you just wait around for people to ask you to play drums. But if you have your own studio and can make music, you have the ability to approach music a lot differently.

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

Personally I find the democratic chaos of the Internet fascinating, and for the most part really benign.

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

Have I dated a supermodel? Of course not. I'd look ridiculous.

When I was a drunk, New York was the greatest place in the world. You walk everywhere, everything is open until four in the morning, and people go to New York looking for debauchery.

Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works.

Luckily almost no one buys music anymore, so selling music doesn't really affect any of my professional decisions.

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

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.

One of the nice things about licensing music to movies or advertisements is you can reach a lot of people who normally wouldn't hear music.

If I spend 100 days in a row making music there's a chance nothing will come of it. But if I spend 100 days not making music it's guaranteed that nothing will come of it. So keep working.

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.

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.

God has taken his chosen people, the problem being you are the only non-chosen person.

God took his chosen people and we are what's left. He looked at what's left and thought: I could kill you all, but let's see what happens. A little social experiment.

When I listen to gospel singers pouring their heart out to God, it's the act of pouring their hearts out that interests me.

My uncle is from Argentina, so I grew up hearing Spanish. My Spanish isn't very good, but my pronunciation isn't terrible.