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" If I was a sex symbol, I would be getting laid a lot more than I am now. "
Moby
Now
Than
Getting
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" 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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Money
Mother
You
" That is not all I need. I need dogs. A house filled with dogs and a smart, funny, kind, loving girlfriend or wife. "
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Funny
Need
Loving
" 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. "
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Song
Think
Music
" 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
" I'm a terrible cook, so I usually eat out with friends. "
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Out
Cook
Eat
" 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. "
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Community
Life
College
" 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. "
Moby
Day
You
Rainy Day
" I joined Facebook purely so I could play online Scrabble. You have eight tiles instead of seven, so you tend to have higher scores. I'm somewhere between 400 and 500. "
Moby
Facebook
You
Somewhere
" I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance. "
Moby
Think
Fear
Life
" 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. "
Moby
Suffering
Environment
Animals
" I run into a lot of people who are instantly filled with ridicule at the idea that someone wouldn't eat meat. "
Moby
Eat
Someone
Run
" 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. "
Moby
Look
Seem
Alien
" I'm perfectly happy for my videos to be on YouTube, whether I'm getting paid for them or not. If they're on YouTube, people will see them. If for some reason my videos get taken down from YouTube, well, I apologize. If it was up to me they'd all be up there and they'd all be free. "
Moby
Happy
Free
Me
" Actually, the most entitled people I've met are indie rockers and indie actors, because they really believe their press. "
Moby
Most
Press
Because
" 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
" 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 don't know many artists who are happy with themselves all of the time. "
Moby
Time
Who
Artists
" 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
" Who wakes up when they're worth £120million and says, 'I'm unhappy today but if only I had an extra £2million!' "
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Unhappy
Who
Up
" The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine. "
Moby
Celebrity
Someone
Years
" I'm like a monk with a taste for hookers. "
Moby
Monk
Taste
Like
" I love going on tour and playing music for people. "
Moby
People
Music
Love
" When you say 'failure,' that seems really dramatic, but a lot of failure is just really depressing and mundane. I remember the first time I ever played a concert in Italy. I played a venue that held 900 people, and I think five people showed up. It wasn't a big, 'John Carter of Mars' type failure. It wasn't dramatic; it was just depressing. "
Moby
Failure
Time
Think
" I love the idea of making records that people can use, records that have a sense of utility. "
Moby
People
Love
Idea
" 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
" 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. "
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Go
Home
Own
" I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive. "
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Much
Rather
Show
" Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn. "
Moby
Never
Success
Learn
" The good thing about not being drop-dead gorgeous is that as time passes, I don't have much to worry about. I have friends who are actors and every day they look in the mirror with trepidation. "
Moby
Friends
Worry
Time
" I don't have children, but I imagine if parents are really pushed on the subject, they probably have favorite children. "
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Children
Parents
Imagine