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'Arbitrary' and 'odd' are the words which best describe the pattern of my career. I'm perpetually baffled by the whole thing.
Moby
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Moby
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 11
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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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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.
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I'm definitely a fan of public humiliation.
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The truth is that genetics has robbed me of hair. But it's not interesting to blame genetics.
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Being a vegan is pretty easy these days, as almost every town and city has health food stores and vegetarian-friendly restaurants.
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Every single day the world seems like it is on the brink of falling apart. But then I look outside my window, and things look about the same as they did a week ago. It's almost a form of cognitive dissonance.
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So in 1987 I gave up all animal products and became a vegan. Simply so that I could eat and live in accordance with my beliefs that animals have their own lives, that they're entitled to their own lives and that contributing to animal suffering is something that I don't want to be a part of.
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I like to quote Homer Simpson: 'I'm like a chocoholic except for alcohol.' I come from a long line of alcoholics. It's funny because when I first started making records, I was at the tail end of a period of sobriety, so I somehow got this reputation as Captain Sober.
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I've had my Charlie Sheen moments, it was usually just at the Mars Bar on the corner of First Avenue with me and a few homeless guys.
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The people who get more fame, who get more money, more often than not they are miserable, insecure and on anti-depressants. It's strange that everyone keeps buying into this idea that more success is good, that more fame is good, that more money is good. Yet, we look at the people who have more success, more fame, more money and they're miserable.
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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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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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As time passes and the more advanced science becomes, the more interesting it becomes.
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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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