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" 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. "
Moby
Brooklyn
Lost
Strange
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" New York is such a competitive place; it tears people apart. People come here and, if they can't make it in the first month, they get torn apart and they have to go back to where they came from. I don't think that's terribly healthy. "
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Tears
Place
New York
" In a perfect world, I would be 6-foot-3 and have a perfect head of hair and look like Orlando Bloom. "
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Head
World
Look
" No one drives in Manhattan - in fact, many of the folks who live in Manhattan don't even have driving licenses! "
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Fact
Many
Who
" I'm envious of people who can sleep as long as they want. I have the circadian rhythm of a farmer. "
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People
Long
Who
" Every single day the world seems like it is on the brink of falling apart. But then I look outside my window, and things look about the same as they did a week ago. It's almost a form of cognitive dissonance. "
Moby
Day
World
Window
" It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I'm ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences. "
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Sometimes
Consequences
Decisions
" I'm a terrible cook, so I usually eat out with friends. "
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Out
Cook
Eat
" In some of the greatest recordings ever made, the performance is a part of the recording. Dylan's 'Rainy Day Women No. 12 and 35' is all about the esthetic of that performance. You can hear the room. "
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Day
You
Rainy Day
" 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. "
Moby
Rights
Beast
Care
" The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine. "
Moby
Celebrity
Someone
Years
" 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. "
Moby
Think
Song
Not Knowing
" People assume that somehow fame and wealth will keep mortality at bay. "
Moby
Wealth
Keep
Fame
" I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive. "
Moby
Much
Rather
Show
" I may be a lifelong 'downtowner,' but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City. "
Moby
City
New
Amazing
" Sacha Baron Cohen is one of my heroes. "
Moby
Heroes
" I know, in my heart of hearts, I don't do things for money. "
Moby
Hearts
Money
Heart
" What sounds good on the radio is really loud kick drums and loud snare drums, when everything's bombastic and in your face. It's the equivalent of a houseguest who screams all the time. "
Moby
Time
Who
Radio
" 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. "
Moby
Result
Awake
Sleep
" I don't have children, but I imagine if parents are really pushed on the subject, they probably have favorite children. "
Moby
Children
Parents
Imagine
" Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book. "
Moby
Find
You
Good
" There is a lot of music in the world that I love that does not always get the appropriate exposure. "
Moby
Music
Love
World
" A part of me wants to sort of try and sound cool and feed this myth that I'm some sort of glamorous lothario, but I was raised by women - my mother and her mother and my aunts - and as a result, most of my friends have always been women. "
Moby
Cool
Women
Result
" I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult. "
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Adult
Food
Food Stamps
" When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands. "
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Jazz
Old
Guitar
" A great song is a great song, whether it's on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Then again, that might be an overly optimistic view, but I do think that great music will transcend the medium in which it is delivered. "
Moby
Song
Think
Music
" For me to speak out against the war in Iraq, you know - most of my fans are lefties anyway, so I don't really get much flack for it. "
Moby
Know
Fans
War
" I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful. "
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Think
Good
Writer
" 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. "
Moby
Strong
Chance
Politics
" The only sort of descriptive adjective or catch phrase for my music would be 'eclectic.' "
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Only
Music
Catch
" I love the idea of making records that people can use, records that have a sense of utility. "
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People
Love
Idea