668 Quotes by Moby

I guess the most emotional part is when I have that moment when I end up writing something that I really, really love. So not only is there the emotional connection with the music that’s being created, but there’s also the magic of the fact that you’re essentially creating something from nothing.

By being vulnerable, either with yourself or in the presence of another person, that’s where all growth and ultimate well-being comes from.

It just seems like musicians want to sell a few records and put out a perfume line, and I think it’s so sad that there are so many musicians who don’t want to change the world.

I remember New York in the ’80s as a place with vacant lots that would eventually give over to nature. Weeds would grow up, squirrels would move in. That entropy is gone now. It’s too expensive to let a vacant lot go natural.

I’ve been making music for thirty-six years and, you know, I’m still just as in love with working on music now as I was thirty-six years ago.

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!’

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

The reason I didn’t like cocaine is it made me do stupid things, have stupid conversations, and stay awake until 11 o’clock in the morning unable to think, read, sleep or speak.

I’ve dated attractive people and I don’t find a correlation between amorous enthusiasm and beauty and public figure status.