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" It's a very strange phenomenon being hated by people you've never met. Some journalists just seem to hate me and everything I do, and it's disconcerting because I've never met this person. "
Moby
People
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You
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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. "
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" 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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" If you and I become vegans, the global consequences aren't going to be that much. But if we can get a few hundred million people to become a little more aware and cut back on their animal consumption, the consequences will be great. "
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" The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine. "
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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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" 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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" If you care about women's rights, you can't not vote. "
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" 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. "
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Way
" I think that Eminem is very talented and remarkably bright, and I actually do like a lot of his music. "
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" 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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" 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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People
" If I was a sex symbol, I would be getting laid a lot more than I am now. "
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" 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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" One of the nice things about licensing music to movies or advertisements is you can reach a lot of people who normally wouldn't hear music. "
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" The way I work on music is that I go into my studio, and I start playing music, and I see what happens, and... I never think about it. "
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" I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive. "
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" I was never encouraged to believe anything. I was brought up in a profoundly agnostic or pantheistic community. "
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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. "
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