Moby

“If you and I become vegans, the global consequences aren't going to be that much. But if we can get a few hundred million people to become a little more aware and cut back on their animal consumption, the consequences will be great.”

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

“The progressive movement needs more crazy and amoral/immoral right-wing politicians and pundits like Tom DeLay and Newt Gingrich and Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity.”

“I think the word 'blog' is an ugly word. I just don't know why people can't use the word 'journal.'”

“A lot of people do talk about the demise of the album, but I still believe that if an artist tries hard to make a great album, people will buy it and listen to it as an album, rather than just a collection of random songs.”

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

“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.'”

“I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good.”

“More often than not, whenever gossip has been written about me, the gossip is more interesting than the reality. I know some public figures hate gossip, but personally I like it because it makes my life sound more glamorous and interesting than it really is.”

“Whereas for me, touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience.”

“I always feel kind of absurd and presumptuous presenting a speech.”

“I don't think there's anything wrong with not knowing how to play an instrument, but the rise of the non-musical producer has done away with musicianship and focused attention purely on the song's hook.”

“As long as the world continues to be strange and interesting, I still want to take pictures of it.”

“Music is just air moving around.”

“When I went to university, I was a philosophy major, but because I'm not very bright I chose to study philosophy at a performing arts school, maybe because the philosophy program there wasn't too rigorous or challenging.”

“Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling.”

“There are a lot of musicians who are still desperately trying to pretend that it's 1998 and by having a huge marketing campaign, they somehow believe that they can sell 10 million records. That's delusional. No one sells 10 million records. The days of musicians getting rich off of selling records are done.”

“There are a lot of public figures who, before they take a stand on a issue, they talk about it with their publicist and they figure out how it's going to affect record sales. Life is really too short to worry about that sort of thing.”

“A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It's big and scary and they get lost.”

“The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work.”