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" In a perfect world, I would be 6-foot-3 and have a perfect head of hair and look like Orlando Bloom. "
Moby
Head
World
Look
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" 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
" Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works. "
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You
Business
Know
" As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of making music is to get it heard by as many people as possible. "
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Far
Get
Music
" But on a utilitarian level, I realize that to try to accomplish the greatest good for the greatest number of people, sometimes we have to become salesmen for what we believe, and part of being a salesman is being effective. "
Moby
People
Believe
Good
" 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
" Many of my friends back in New York and elsewhere have a glib or dismissive attitude toward Los Angeles. It's a place of strip malls and traffic and not much else, in their opinion. "
Moby
New York
Attitude
Friends
" When I say, 'I love Christ and love the teachings of Christ,' I mean that in the most simple and naive way. I'm not saying I'm right. "
Moby
Right
Love
Way
" 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've had insomnia since I was a little kid and I never sleep well. Sometimes I sleep very badly and sometimes I sleep slightly badly. I get it especially when I'm on tour because you cross a lot of time zones, and I'm not very adaptable. "
Moby
Never
Sometimes
Time
" 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
" If someone is cynical and doesn't vote and ends up with a crummy job in a crummy country with a decimated environment, they only have themselves to blame. "
Moby
Job
Environment
Country
" No one drives in Manhattan - in fact, many of the folks who live in Manhattan don't even have driving licenses! "
Moby
Fact
Many
Who
" I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful. "
Moby
Think
Good
Writer
" I know, in my heart of hearts, I don't do things for money. "
Moby
Hearts
Money
Heart
" 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. "
Moby
Tears
Place
New York
" 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. "
Moby
Random
Interesting
Learn
" 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
" Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise. "
Moby
Recording
Looks
Become
" If Nirvana had remained a small, underground punk rock band, Kurt Cobain would still be alive. And he'd probably be living in Seattle, getting kind of fat and balding, be relatively happy and producing records for other people. "
Moby
Happy
Living
Rock
" I feel compelled to make art that on one hand reflects and sometimes almost creates like a sense of comfort when confronted with the strangeness of the world. "
Moby
World
Comfort
Feel
" 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. "
Moby
New York
Walk
Influence
" There's a fairly extensive network of musicians on tour who are all trying to stay sober, and we generally reach out to each other and offer support when and where we can. "
Moby
Reach
Trying
Support
" I like tea and yoga, but I don't do yoga. "
Moby
Yoga
Like
Tea
" 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. "
Moby
Great
Down
Become
" 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.' "
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Look
T-Shirt
See
" Traffic terrifies me. "
Moby
Me
Traffic
" Shaving your head is acceptable. It's when you start wearing toupees and brushing your hair over that things go wrong. "
Moby
Start
Over
Head
" 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
" When I was in my twenties, I thought I was bulletproof. "
Moby
Bulletproof
Thought
Twenties
" 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. "
Moby
Love
Look
Person