Moby

“I don't sleep very well when I travel. And as a result, I tend to be awake in cities when everyone else is asleep.”

“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.”

“As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk rock, jazz, hip-hop and house music started here, George Gershwin debuted 'Rhapsody in Blue' here; the Velvet Underground are from New York.”

“I buy things with the best of intention of living in them and then life intercedes.”

“I'm perfectly happy for my videos to be on YouTube, whether I'm getting paid for them or not. If they're on YouTube, people will see them. If for some reason my videos get taken down from YouTube, well, I apologize. If it was up to me they'd all be up there and they'd all be free.”

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

“I love it when celebrities fall apart.”

“I feel compelled to make art that on one hand reflects and sometimes almost creates like a sense of comfort when confronted with the strangeness of the world.”

“As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of making music is to get it heard by as many people as possible.”

“If Nirvana had remained a small, underground punk rock band, Kurt Cobain would still be alive. And he'd probably be living in Seattle, getting kind of fat and balding, be relatively happy and producing records for other people.”

“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.'”

“Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn.”

“When you say 'failure,' that seems really dramatic, but a lot of failure is just really depressing and mundane. I remember the first time I ever played a concert in Italy. I played a venue that held 900 people, and I think five people showed up. It wasn't a big, 'John Carter of Mars' type failure. It wasn't dramatic; it was just depressing.”

“One of the reasons why fundamentalists are so aggressive in trying to promote fundamentalism is because deep down they know it's arbitrary. If you're comfortable with your belief you don't need to convince other people to agree with you.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach.”

“I don't have children, but I imagine if parents are really pushed on the subject, they probably have favorite children.”

“If you look at someone like Joe Strummer or John Lennon, when you heard their music you knew that they wrote it and they cared about it.”

“I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms.”