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" Scotland is one of my favourite places to perform: it's really something special. Scottish audiences are just so enthusiastic; their approach to dance music just feels similar to my own somehow. "

Moby

Own

Dance

Just

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" 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. "

" 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. "

Moby

Christian

Interview

" Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book. "

" I love the idea of making records that people can use, records that have a sense of utility. "

" 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. "

" I like tea and yoga, but I don't do yoga. "

Moby

Yoga

Tea

" I still never get recognized. Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same. "

" In the long, nonillustrious history of white people pilfering African American culture, have I just perpetrated that? I'm motivated by a love for the music and by a love of the performances, and I really hope I haven't done anything bad. "

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

" People assume that somehow fame and wealth will keep mortality at bay. "

" There is nothing terribly wrong with my face, even if some of its parts aren't very inspiring. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" I buy things with the best of intention of living in them and then life intercedes. "

" 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

" The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine. "

" 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. "

" As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of making music is to get it heard by as many people as possible. "

" 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. "

" I run into a lot of people who are instantly filled with ridicule at the idea that someone wouldn't eat meat. "

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

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

" Sacha Baron Cohen is one of my heroes. "

Moby

Heroes

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music. "