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" I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He's got such a wicked sense of humor. "
Moby
Sense Of Humor
Humor
Dinner
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" There are a lot of musicians who are still desperately trying to pretend that it's 1998 and by having a huge marketing campaign, they somehow believe that they can sell 10 million records. That's delusional. No one sells 10 million records. The days of musicians getting rich off of selling records are done. "
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Done
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" I buy things with the best of intention of living in them and then life intercedes. "
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Things
Living
" My mother and I were on welfare and food stamps until I was 18, so I've always had this ethos of, like, 'try and make a little bit of money now because you don't know what's going to happen tomorrow.' "
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" I remember New York in the '80s as a place with vacant lots that would eventually give over to nature. Weeds would grow up, squirrels would move in. That entropy is gone now. It's too expensive to let a vacant lot go natural. "
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" I like tea and yoga, but I don't do yoga. "
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Yoga
Like
Tea
" It seems so antithetical to the teachings of Christ to proclaim your faith in public. I mean, of course you're not supposed to hide your light under a bushel. "
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You
Christ
Mean
" 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. "
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" I believe that the role of limited government should be looking after the needs of veterans, the elderly, children and those institutions that improve the quality of life for struggling families - I don't believe that government should bend to serve the needs of subsidized multi-national corporations and entitled billionaires. "
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Children
Quality
Life
" I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist. "
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Science
Science Fiction
Up
" You can sit down with Reason or Ableton and literally in a couple of hours make a very good-sounding record. But then a lot of people become contented with that, rather than pushing themselves to making something that sounds great. "
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Great
Down
Become
" I truly believe, as an institution, most major labels should just die. "
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Just
" 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. "
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Back
Rock
People
" Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book. "
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Find
You
Good
" I don't know many artists who are happy with themselves all of the time. "
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Time
Who
Artists
" Being a vegan is pretty easy these days, as almost every town and city has health food stores and vegetarian-friendly restaurants. "
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City
Food
Easy
" At the risk of sounding pedestrian, I'll be completely honest: the first thing I do in the morning is check Google News, partially because it seems sort of random and unbiased and partially because I tend to stay in hotels that don't necessarily have the fastest Internet connections. "
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Connections
Random
Morning
" I love the fact that no one's ever bought my record because they were enamoured of the way I look. Maybe one person. There must be someone out there with compromised taste. "
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Love
Look
Person
" When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched obscure movies and only listened to obscure music. "
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Only
Growing
Growing Up
" When I was growing up, albums were my closest friends, as sad as that may sound - Joy Division's 'Closer,' or Echo and the Bunnymen's 'Heaven Up Here'... I had a more intimate relationship with those records than I did with most of the people in my life. "
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People
Life
Relationship
" If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be interested. "
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Going
Work
People
" I'm like a monk with a taste for hookers. "
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Monk
Taste
Like
" If one of my heroes comes to me and says, 'Do you want to work on something?' I just say, 'Yes.' I don't ask for details; I don't expect to get paid anything. I just love working with my heroes. "
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Me
Heroes
Details
" When 'Play' first came out, journalists didn't review it; it didn't get radio play. And then it became this big successful record and, I hate to admit this, I found myself liking the fame. I bought into it. "
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Play
Fame
Myself
" When playing big festivals, I tend to play big, over the top techno tracks, like hands in the air songs that make sense being played in front of 30,000 people. I steer away from subtlety in the interests of big bombastic dance music. "
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Dance
People
Music
" When I was in my twenties, I thought I was bulletproof. "
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Bulletproof
Thought
Twenties
" Musically, New York is a big influence on me. Walk down the street for five minutes and you'll hear homeless punk rockers, people playing Caribbean music and reggae, sacred Islamic music and Latino music, so many different types of music. "
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New York
Walk
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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. "
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Brooklyn
Lost
Strange
" But at the same time, I don't let myself regret things to the point that I'm paralyzed. "
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Regret
Same
Point
" 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. "
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Music
Great
Chaos
" I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful. "
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Think
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Writer