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Sometimes I love the marriage of art and commerce I love Donna Summer I like the Rolling Stones.
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Moby
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 11
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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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There's really no reason for any musician, writer, actor to ever take themselves seriously. If you work in a needle exchange, take yourself seriously. You're doing good work. If you're involved in hostage negotiations and saving lives, you can have a sense of entitlement.
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There are a lot of public figures who, before they take a stand on a issue, they talk about it with their publicist and they figure out how it's going to affect record sales. Life is really too short to worry about that sort of thing.
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I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful.
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I don't think too much about how it might exist in the world in a commercial sense - I more just try and focus on making music that I love and trying to put it out into the world.
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What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.
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I'm just fascinated with the world that I can see, but I'm even more fascinated with the world that I can't see.
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Once the pathological low self-esteem goes, that's when things go downhill.
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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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I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He's got such a wicked sense of humor.
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I love the idea of making records that people can use, records that have a sense of utility.
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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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The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine.
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These new metal bands are going out, getting drunk and going to strip clubs, and they'll be doing the same in thirty years. There isn't even an interesting self-destructive quality to it . . . it's just dumb.
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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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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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I think it'd be great if Prince made an album of just romantic, slow ballads.
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To me, one of the easiest ways of addressing climate change and potentially remedying climate change is to stop subsidizing animal agriculture.
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Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book.
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For better or worse, I'm interested in just about everything: every different type of music I can imagine. I can never see a reason to choose just one type of music at the exclusion of everything else. Different types of music are capable of being rewarding in different kinds of ways.
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