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" 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. "

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" In the course of my life, I've made some happy songs but it's the more sort of like pathos-laden, emotional, melancholic music that either I make or that other people make that really resonates with me. "

" I wish I could sing. I don't technically have a terrible voice, but it's certainly not as good as most of my friends. Whenever I hear myself on a record, it just reminds me I'm not a very good singer. "

" Music is just air moving around. "

" I'm a terrible cook, so I usually eat out with friends. "

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

" 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.' "

" I need an audience way more than an audience needs me. "

" I run into a lot of people who are instantly filled with ridicule at the idea that someone wouldn't eat meat. "

" Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist. "

" I always feel kind of absurd and presumptuous presenting a speech. "

" If you make a record, you should ask yourself, 'Did it make someone cry, in a good way, not a bad way?' There should almost be subjective emotional criteria for evaluating work, instead of just profitability. "

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

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

" 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. "

Moby

Christian

Interview

" I feel like once the song is done, you put it out there and if people want to do bizarre remixes, if people want to make strange videos, great. You know, like chaos theory applied to the music business. "

" Punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business. "

" For better or worse, I'm interested in just about everything: every different type of music I can imagine. I can never see a reason to choose just one type of music at the exclusion of everything else. Different types of music are capable of being rewarding in different kinds of ways. "

" 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. "

" As long as the world continues to be strange and interesting, I still want to take pictures of it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to. "

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

" When I do have time to work on music, I'm kind of selfish, and would rather work on my own stuff than someone else's. "

" I like tea and yoga, but I don't do yoga. "

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Yoga

Tea

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" I've made records that everyone has hated and I've loved, and made records that everyone has loved and I've deemed, at best, mediocre. "