Quotes from Moby

I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful.

Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book.

There is a dysfunctional strangeness to Los Angeles that doesn't exist in any other western city. The roads are crumbling, no-one knows what they're doing, the city government barely works.

Being a vegan is pretty easy these days, as almost every town and city has health food stores and vegetarian-friendly restaurants.

I feel that one of the reasons Brexit happened was that people stayed at home rather than going to the polls.

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.

If I was a sex symbol, I would be getting laid a lot more than I am now.

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

Shaving your head is acceptable. It's when you start wearing toupees and brushing your hair over that things go wrong.

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.

Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist.

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

I'm a terrible cook, so I usually eat out with friends.

If someone is cynical and doesn't vote and ends up with a crummy job in a crummy country with a decimated environment, they only have themselves to blame.

There might be a lot of difference between Republicans and Democrats on key social issues like women's rights and health care. But when it comes to taking corporate cash, they're pretty much the same beast.

I think that Eminem is very talented and remarkably bright, and I actually do like a lot of his music.

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

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.

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.'

Actually, the most entitled people I've met are indie rockers and indie actors, because they really believe their press.

I'm like a monk with a taste for hookers.

In 1991 I did an interview wherein I described myself as a 'teetotal Christian,' which was an exaggeration, although I do like tea and Christ.

I will be very sad when global warming and toxins kill off all the toads and frogs and salamanders. Here's hoping we, as humans, figure out a way to be less stupid.

It just seems like musicians want to sell a few records and put out a perfume line, and I think it's so sad that there are so many musicians who don't want to change the world.