Moby Quotes

I've never seen Friends; I've never seen Seinfeld. I've heard people reference these things but I've never seen them.

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.

There is a dysfunctional strangeness to Los Angeles that doesn't exist in any other western city. The roads are crumbling, no-one knows what they're doing, the city government barely works.

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

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.

If someone writes a nice review of my record, I feel like I should take them out to dinner or go over and clean their apartment.

Whether the Virgin Mary existed, I don't know. But the human need for her to appear in tortilla, that's what inspires my interest.

My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing.

There's nothing in the actual Bible that limits a Christian in their appreciation of or interest in science. Anti-science is purely a function of ignorant fundamentalism.

If I found myself married with children and had tons of puppies and a fun place to live, I imagine I'd be happier, but I kind of like being a little bit isolated and lonely.

If I spend 100 days in a row making music there’s a chance nothing will come of it. But if I spend 100 days not making music it’s guaranteed that nothing will come of it. So keep working.

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

I've been having a midlife crisis since I was four years old.

New York has inspired more remarkable music than any other city I can think of.

It's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers, you know?

I don't want to get too nuanced, but we have the electoral college in the United States and that means we don't have direct democracy.

All human belief systems are inherently flawed.

People who meditate and have a good spiritual practice, their immune systems are stronger. Generally, they are happier and healthier.

One of the goals of a spiritual practice is self-awareness, and one of the best tools of self-awareness is simple emotional vulnerability.

When I was in my twenties, I thought I was bulletproof.

It's a very strange phenomenon being hated by people you've never met. Some journalists just seem to hate me and everything I do, and it's disconcerting because I've never met this person.

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

My uncle is from Argentina, so I grew up hearing Spanish. My Spanish isn't very good, but my pronunciation isn't terrible.

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

Let peace and beauty reign.

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'm like a monk with a taste for hookers.

I'm not Catholic but the Virgin Mary fascinates me because she's like a folk hero.

Biologically we’re all the same. We all get sad, we all get happy, and we all die. Anyone who pretends that that’s not the case is either a sociopath or utterly delusional.

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.

If you're inclined to dismiss L.A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L.A. a huge disservice, and you're just not looking hard enough.

I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He's got such a wicked sense of humor.

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.

I'm obsessed with politics, and I talk about it any chance I can get. I have strong opinions about how the world should be run.

Many of my friends back in New York and elsewhere have a glib or dismissive attitude toward Los Angeles. It's a place of strip malls and traffic and not much else, in their opinion.

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.

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.

I'm sure most people have this experience: when you're young you drink, you do drugs, you stay up late, and there are no consequences.

The moment that you impose your will on another person or animal, that's when we are allowed to say you have committed an ethical breach.

I like being vegan, I think it's good for my health.

The moment somebody becomes famous, 15 years gets knocked off their life. They're gonna get divorced a few times, they're gonna be addicted to things, they're gonna be in therapy.

When I was a drunk, New York was the greatest place in the world. You walk everywhere, everything is open until four in the morning, and people go to New York looking for debauchery.

I've been friends with madonna for ever. In fact she was at my 3rd solo performance in 1990, and there were only 10 people in the audience.

I love that vinyl is actually growing in popularity, and that there are so many great record stores.

I know it's simple, but my main inspiration is just my love of music. I know that sounds overly naive. But it's true.

When I dj at big venues I try to play tracks that I would want to hear if I were e'd up in a field with 50,000 other people.

For me my biggest inspiration is trying to make music that effects me as much as the music made by my heroes.

I have nothing against bombastic music, but when it comes to making albums, I'd prefer to make music that has a sort of vulnerable subtlety to it.

I think it'd be great if Prince made an album of just romantic, slow ballads.

I’ve never seen the need to choose one type of music at the exclusion of another. That would feel kind of sad and arbitrary.