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" Every time you read an interview with a supermodel, they're always like, 'Oh, I was a such nerd.' I resent that a little bit. I was in the A/V club. I used to eat my lunch in a closet. "
Moby
Always
Interview
Eat
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" I love the idea of making records that people can use, records that have a sense of utility. "
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" 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. "
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Voice
Good
Friends
" You make mistakes and you learn from them. "
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Make
You
Mistakes
" The strange thing about hotel rooms is that they look familiar and seem familiar and have many of the accoutrements that seem domestic and familiar, but they are really weird, alien and anonymous places. "
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Seem
Alien
" I've worked with all sorts of random people - everybody from Metallica to Britney Spears to Ozzy Osbourne to Michael Jackson to the Beastie Boys. I've got a really strange CV. It's interesting - I work with a lot of these disparate, different people to learn what it's like to work with random people. "
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Random
Interesting
Learn
" I have actually found myself buying up more and more old analogue gear. I have this strange obsession with old drum machines. "
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More
Myself
" There are some public figures who are very private and almost hide behind their work. I try to be as open as possible. "
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Behind
Possible
Work
" Whereas for me, touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience. "
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Experience
Touring
Strange
" When I was in my twenties, I thought I was bulletproof. "
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Bulletproof
Thought
Twenties
" 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
" People love their favorite records. And I aspire to make a record someone might be able to love in that way. "
Moby
People
Able
Aspire
" I know, in my heart of hearts, I don't do things for money. "
Moby
Hearts
Money
Heart
" 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. "
Moby
Made
Loved
Everyone
" In the long, nonillustrious history of white people pilfering African American culture, have I just perpetrated that? I'm motivated by a love for the music and by a love of the performances, and I really hope I haven't done anything bad. "
Moby
Culture
Bad
Love
" My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing. "
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Recording Studio
Job
Nothing
" I'd just rather have a really sharp, interesting, smart gay son than some big dumb hetero meathead. "
Moby
Smart
Dumb
Big
" 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. "
Moby
Sometimes
Consequences
Decisions
" When I went to university, I was a philosophy major, but because I'm not very bright I chose to study philosophy at a performing arts school, maybe because the philosophy program there wasn't too rigorous or challenging. "
Moby
School
Study
Philosophy
" 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. "
Moby
Performance
Me
Get
" People have always been resistant to change. If you go back to the 17th, 18th century, playing guitar was frowned upon. When rock n' roll first started, no one took it seriously. "
Moby
Back
Rock
People
" 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. "
Moby
Choose
See
Music
" I've never seen 'Friends;' I've never seen 'Seinfeld.' I've heard people reference these things but I've never seen them. "
Moby
Never
Friends
Things
" My uncle is from Argentina, so I grew up hearing Spanish. My Spanish isn't very good, but my pronunciation isn't terrible. "
Moby
Hearing
Good
Argentina
" I walk out my front door in New York and I'm out on the street and there are people everywhere. L.A. is so much more spread out, so it's really easy in L.A. to have a little more isolation and to just not see as many people. "
Moby
Door
Walk
People
" I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive. "
Moby
Much
Rather
Show
" 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. "
Moby
Own
Dance
Just
" There is a lot of music in the world that I love that does not always get the appropriate exposure. "
Moby
Music
Love
World
" I can't think of any musician or producer who has influenced me more than Brian Eno. From when he was in Roxy Music, producing Devo, the Talking Heads and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. "
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Life
Think
Talking
" I like tea and yoga, but I don't do yoga. "
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Yoga
Like
Tea
" I may be a lifelong 'downtowner,' but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City. "
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City
New
Amazing