Moby

“When public figures think they can open a business even though they've got no business experience, it's a bad idea.”

“I joined Facebook purely so I could play online Scrabble. You have eight tiles instead of seven, so you tend to have higher scores. I'm somewhere between 400 and 500.”

“For me to speak out against the war in Iraq, you know - most of my fans are lefties anyway, so I don't really get much flack for it.”

“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.”

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

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

“Mainly I'm a vegan because I like animals, and I don't want to be involved in their suffering. Also, it's better for my health and for the environment.”

“Sacha Baron Cohen is one of my heroes.”

“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.”

“Every single day the world seems like it is on the brink of falling apart. But then I look outside my window, and things look about the same as they did a week ago. It's almost a form of cognitive dissonance.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Traffic terrifies me.”

“I can't think of any musician or producer who has influenced me more than Brian Eno. From when he was in Roxy Music, producing Devo, the Talking Heads and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.”

“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.”

“In some of the greatest recordings ever made, the performance is a part of the recording. Dylan's 'Rainy Day Women No. 12 and 35' is all about the esthetic of that performance. You can hear the room.”

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

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

“You can sit down with Reason or Ableton and literally in a couple of hours make a very good-sounding record. But then a lot of people become contented with that, rather than pushing themselves to making something that sounds great.”

“I like tea and yoga, but I don't do yoga.”