Moby Quotes

You make mistakes and you learn from them.

Whereas for me, touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience.

The way I work on music is that I go into my studio, and I start playing music, and I see what happens, and… I never think about it.

That is not all I need. I need dogs. A house filled with dogs and a smart, funny, kind, loving girlfriend or wife.

Somehow, magically, I’ve become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.

Some of the songs I’ve made, I’m really disappointed in how I mixed them.

If I was a s*x symbol, I would be getting laid a lot more than I am now.

I’m like a monk with a taste for hookers.

I’m like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms.

I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to.

I still never get recognized. Small, bald white guys like myself – we all kind of look the same.

I run into a lot of people who are instantly filled with ridicule at the idea that someone wouldn’t eat meat.

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

I love the idea of making records that people can use, records that have a sense of utility.

I love going on tour and playing music for people.

I find myself for whatever reason unable to live in the apartment I renovate and have to sell.

I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good.

I buy things with the best of intention of living in them and then life intercedes.

But on a utilitarian level, I realize that to try to accomplish the greatest good for the greatest number of people, sometimes we have to become salesmen for what we believe, and part of being a salesman is being effective.

But at the same time, I don’t let myself regret things to the point that I’m paralyzed.