Quotes by Moby

Many of my friends back in New York and elsewhere have a glib or dismissive attitude toward Los Angeles. Its a place of strip malls and traffic and not much else, in their opinion.

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

I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. Hes got such a wicked sense of humor.

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 wasnt a big, John Carter of Mars type failure. It wasnt dramatic; it was just depressing.

A part of me wants to sort of try and sound cool and feed this myth that Im some sort of glamorous lothario, but I was raised by women - my mother and her mother and my aunts - and as a result, most of my friends have always been women.

I have no patience for anyone who thinks theyve figured things out, no patience for people who think theyre right at the expense of everyone else. The world is too connected and too complicated to conform to any of our rigid ideas of what it should be like.

A great song is a great song, whether its 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.

At the risk of sounding pedestrian, Ill 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 dont necessarily have the fastest Internet connections.

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

Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they dont really know how the music business works.

Being a vegan is pretty easy these days, as almost every town and city has health food stores and vegetarian-friendly restaurants.

I may be a lifelong downtowner, but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City.

Im obsessed with politics, and I talk about it any chance I can get. I have strong opinions about how the world should be run.

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.

Mainly Im a vegan because I like animals, and I dont want to be involved in their suffering. Also, its better for my health and for the environment.

I dont sleep very well when I travel. And as a result, I tend to be awake in cities when everyone else is asleep.

When I was growing up, albums were my closest friends, as sad as that may sound - Joy Divisions Closer, or Echo and the Bunnymens Heaven Up Here... I had a more intimate relationship with those records than I did with most of the people in my life.

For years, my mom dated a man who was really active in the Baptist church in the town next to the town I grew up in, and so he used to drag me to these Baptist church services that lasted forever. I remember that I didnt like the church services, but I really liked the music.

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 dont believe that government should bend to serve the needs of subsidized multi-national corporations and entitled billionaires.

Id much rather go out and have music randomly presented to me by different DJs than stay home and discover it on my own.