Moby

“I'm envious of people who can sleep as long as they want. I have the circadian rhythm of a farmer.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult.”

“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.”

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

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

“If you care about women's rights, you can't not vote.”

“We do all, myself included, we tend to hold ourselves to pretty low standards. But when it comes to judging public figures or politicians or people we've never met, we tend to hold people to very high standards, and, if we held ourselves to those standards, we'd always fall short.”

“I like noise. It's always puzzled me why one of the goals of contemporary recording is to get rid of noise and to eliminate any element of a performance.”

“In a perfect world, I would be 6-foot-3 and have a perfect head of hair and look like Orlando Bloom.”

“I love to be busy. I'm envious of people who are able to take their spare time and relax. All I like to do is work. Perhaps it's lingering Calvinist guilt?”

“It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If you're a drummer, you just wait around for people to ask you to play drums. But if you have your own studio and can make music, you have the ability to approach music a lot differently.”

“Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works.”

“No one drives in Manhattan - in fact, many of the folks who live in Manhattan don't even have driving licenses!”