Quotes from Moby

There is a lot of music in the world that I love that does not always get the appropriate exposure.

I'll look through 'Us Weekly' and I'll see a picture of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Anniston. And I'm like, 'Wow, they just... they look so good. Even if they're like just wearing jeans and a t-shirt, they still look great.'

My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing.

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.

I won't complain about touring, because I really do believe that a public-figure musician complaining about being a public-figure musician is just absurd. Like, 'Boo hoo hoo! I have to stand on stage and people pay attention to me!'

For years, my mom dated a man who was really active in the Baptist church in the town next to the town I grew up in, and so he used to drag me to these Baptist church services that lasted forever. I remember that I didn't like the church services, but I really liked the music.

What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.

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.

Traffic terrifies me.

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.

The truth is that genetics has robbed me of hair. But it's not interesting to blame genetics.

I honestly just love being in my studio working on music. That's all the inspiration I need. And I don't write with an end result in mind, I just write for the simple love of writing.

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.

I love nyc. It's the city of my birth and probably the most amazing city on the planet.

Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.

I love going on tour and playing music for people.

I love it when celebrities fall apart.

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.

I love the idea of making records that people can use, records that have a sense of utility.

People love their favorite records. And I aspire to make a record someone might be able to love in that way.

I love the fact that no one's ever bought my record because they were enamoured of the way I look. Maybe one person. There must be someone out there with compromised taste.

If I were to be really petulant, I would say New York is the one doing the betraying. Because the New York I fell in love with doesn't really exist anymore.

I love that vinyl is actually growing in popularity, and that there are so many great record stores.

I know it's simple, but my main inspiration is just my love of music. I know that sounds overly naive. But it's true.