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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!'

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Moby
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 11
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If you look at the history of popular music, the most successful musicians have started out being really marginal and esoteric. The Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Madonna. Prince. Bruce Springsteen. Fleetwood Mac. David Bowie. Public Enemy. Nirvana.
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I've been friends with madonna for ever. In fact she was at my 3rd solo performance in 1990, and there were only 10 people in the audience.
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One simple word: ugh. Is something still considered a conspiracy if it's played out right under our noses?
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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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When I tour I'm going to countries to play music for people. My presence in a country is not an endorsement or a condemnation of that country's policies. My presence in a country is an effort to connect with people through playing music.
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I was never encouraged to believe anything. I was brought up in a profoundly agnostic or pantheistic community.
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When someone comes to me and says the music I've made has affected them emotionally, that's the most gratifying part of my job.
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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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There is nothing terribly wrong with my face, even if some of its parts aren't very inspiring.
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When I was growing up I was an atheist, then an agnostic, and then I had a good eight or ten years of being quite a serious Christian.
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I'm gonna have to start walking down the street and start hitting people in the head!
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I'm like a monk with a taste for hookers.
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The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine.
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If you look at the history of demagoguery and fascism, it always happens when there are two things. It requires a gentle populace to allow it to happen, whether through laziness, ignorance or ineptitude, but it also requires a very angry, dissatisfied section of the populace who want egregiously simple answers to very complicated problems.
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New York has inspired more remarkable music than any other city I can think of.
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There are so many musicians, friends of mine, who play shows for ten people a night, or always desperately wanted a record contract. So even if every person on the planet loathes me, I have nothing to complain about. My job is not a bad job, so I can't complain.
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