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" Who wakes up when they're worth £120million and says, 'I'm unhappy today but if only I had an extra £2million!' "
Moby
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" I'm envious of people who can sleep as long as they want. I have the circadian rhythm of a farmer. "
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" 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. "
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Great
Chaos
" 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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You
" You know, if you love something, you should love it regardless of whether it costs five dollars or 500 or 5,000 dollars. Unfortunately, that's not the way our culture works, and we do collectively buy into this idea that things that are more expensive probably have more value. "
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Love
Know
Value
" 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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Random
Interesting
Learn
" 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. "
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Interview
Like
" There are a lot of musicians who are still desperately trying to pretend that it's 1998 and by having a huge marketing campaign, they somehow believe that they can sell 10 million records. That's delusional. No one sells 10 million records. The days of musicians getting rich off of selling records are done. "
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Believe
Done
Trying
" For me to speak out against the war in Iraq, you know - most of my fans are lefties anyway, so I don't really get much flack for it. "
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Know
Fans
War
" 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. "
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Great
Down
Become
" Sacha Baron Cohen is one of my heroes. "
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Heroes
" I think the word 'blog' is an ugly word. I just don't know why people can't use the word 'journal.' "
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Ugly
Why
Journal
" Actually, the most entitled people I've met are indie rockers and indie actors, because they really believe their press. "
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Most
Press
Because
" 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. "
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Performance
Me
Get
" 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. "
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World
Comfort
Feel
" 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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Play
Fame
Myself
" 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. "
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Happy
Living
Rock
" Shaving your head is acceptable. It's when you start wearing toupees and brushing your hair over that things go wrong. "
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Start
Over
Head
" 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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Music
You
Movies
" 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? "
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Work
Love
Busy
" 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
Animal
Change
" I've made records that everyone has hated and I've loved, and made records that everyone has loved and I've deemed, at best, mediocre. "
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Made
Loved
Everyone
" You make mistakes and you learn from them. "
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Make
You
Mistakes
" 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. "
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Connections
Random
Morning
" When public figures think they can open a business even though they've got no business experience, it's a bad idea. "
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Experience
Open
Business
" I have actually found myself buying up more and more old analogue gear. I have this strange obsession with old drum machines. "
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Obsession
More
Myself
" I can't think of any musician or producer who has influenced me more than Brian Eno. From when he was in Roxy Music, producing Devo, the Talking Heads and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. "
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Life
Think
Talking
" 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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Back
Rock
People
" Whereas for me, touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience. "
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Experience
Touring
Strange
" I'm a terrible cook, so I usually eat out with friends. "
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Out
Cook
Eat
" I buy things with the best of intention of living in them and then life intercedes. "
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Intention
Things
Living