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" More often than not, whenever gossip has been written about me, the gossip is more interesting than the reality. I know some public figures hate gossip, but personally I like it because it makes my life sound more glamorous and interesting than it really is. "

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" There are a lot of people in the animal rights movement who can be very passionate and aggressive, and I applaud people's passion, but when people are judgmental and aggressive, all you end up doing is getting other people to turn away in irritation. To change people's minds, you have to respect the people you're talking to. "

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Passion

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Change

" I don't have children, but I imagine if parents are really pushed on the subject, they probably have favorite children. "

" Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling. "

" Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same. "

" When I do have time to work on music, I'm kind of selfish, and would rather work on my own stuff than someone else's. "

" 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. "

" The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In a perfect world, I would be 6-foot-3 and have a perfect head of hair and look like Orlando Bloom. "

" When I was in my twenties, I thought I was bulletproof. "

" Sacha Baron Cohen is one of my heroes. "

Moby

Heroes

" I love to be busy. I'm envious of people who are able to take their spare time and relax. All I like to do is work. Perhaps it's lingering Calvinist guilt? "

" 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. "

" People love their favorite records. And I aspire to make a record someone might be able to love in that way. "

" My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing. "

" I'm like a monk with a taste for hookers. "

Moby

Monk

Taste

" If you're inclined to dismiss L.A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L.A. a huge disservice, and you're just not looking hard enough. "

" 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

Get

" I've never seen 'Friends;' I've never seen 'Seinfeld.' I've heard people reference these things but I've never seen them. "

" 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. "

" I won't complain about touring, because I really do believe that a public-figure musician complaining about being a public-figure musician is just absurd. Like, 'Boo hoo hoo! I have to stand on stage and people pay attention to me!' "

Moby

Stand

People

" 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. "

" There are a lot of public figures who, before they take a stand on a issue, they talk about it with their publicist and they figure out how it's going to affect record sales. Life is really too short to worry about that sort of thing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Personally I find the democratic chaos of the Internet fascinating, and for the most part really benign. "

" There is a lot of music in the world that I love that does not always get the appropriate exposure. "

" I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive. "

" I don't know many artists who are happy with themselves all of the time. "