Moby Quotes

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.

One simple word: ugh. Is something still considered a conspiracy if it's played out right under our noses?

My reason for becoming a vegetarian was simple: I loved (and love) animals

The good thing about not being drop-dead gorgeous is that as time passes, I don't have much to worry about. I have friends who are actors and every day they look in the mirror with trepidation.

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

Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it, 'My appetite is more important than your suffering'?

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

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

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.

To truly live a creative life means that you will need to experiment in as many different fields as possible.

Basically we should stop doing those things that are destructive to the environment, other creatures, and ourselves and figure out new ways of existing.

Music can always serve a role in people's lives when it's emotional and warm and inviting and beautiful.

I realized that I don't like touring. I'll never complain about it because no one wants to hear about a relatively successful musician complain about the hardships of staying in a hotel.

And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves, and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.

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

The only sort of descriptive adjective or catch phrase for my music would be 'eclectic.'

I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance.

It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.

I may be a lifelong 'downtowner,' but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City.

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.

That is not all I need. I need dogs. A house filled with dogs and a smart, funny, kind, loving girlfriend or wife.

In a way I almost feel like the election of Donald Trump has inspired Democrats and progressives and punk rockers in a way that hasn't been seen since Vietnam.

I saw people around me who were falling deeper and deeper into alcoholism and substance abuse. It's seductive because alcohol is amazing and drugs are amazing, they work so well.

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

There's something about the human brain, that it actually has a predilection towards negativity, which served us really well when we lived in an environment that was very threatening.

It just seems like musicians want to sell a few records and put out a perfume line, and I think it's so sad that there are so many musicians who don't want to change the world.

I'm just fascinated with the world that I can see, but I'm even more fascinated with the world that I can't see.

I will be very sad when global warming and toxins kill off all the toads and frogs and salamanders. Here's hoping we, as humans, figure out a way to be less stupid.

Luckily almost no one buys music anymore, so selling music doesn't really affect any of my professional decisions.

I was never encouraged to believe anything. I was brought up in a profoundly agnostic or pantheistic community.

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

The main thing that excites me and makes me want to get out of bed is the thought of being able to go into my studio to work on music.

I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive.

I'd rather be around broken people who have a degree of humility, and just get on with their work.

A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music.

If you don't want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed ot tortured, then you shouldn't condone such behaviour towards anyone, be they human or not.

People don't truly respond to something until they see the direct consequences.

Better a loving single-parent family than a 'conventional' family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue.

One of the nice things about licensing music to movies or advertisements is you can reach a lot of people who normally wouldn't hear music.

My secret is being not terrible at a lot of things.

I see 'Ahab's Wife' as offering an alternative vision to

Over time, I started becoming more and more aware of the vastness and complexity of the universe, which led me away from any sort of conventional Christianity.

Success usually breeds a degree of hubris.

The worst case scenario is you really like someone's work, then you meet them and they're a self-involved, entitled douchebag.

In 1991 I did an interview wherein I described myself as a 'teetotal Christian,' which was an exaggeration, although I do like tea and Christ.

'Arbitrary' and 'odd' are the words which best describe the pattern of my career. I'm perpetually baffled by the whole thing.

The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine.

The midlife crisis you're having at 30 is indulgent, but the midlife crisis you have at 45 is to an extent thrust upon 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.