Moby Trying Quotations

There are a lot of musicians who are still desperately trying to pretend that it's 1998 and by having a huge marketing campaign, they somehow believe that they can sell 10 million records. That's delusional. No one sells 10 million records. The days of musicians getting rich off of selling records are done.

My mother and I were on welfare and food stamps until I was 18, so I've always had this ethos of, like, 'try and make a little bit of money now because you don't know what's going to happen tomorrow.'

A part of me wants to sort of try and sound cool and feed this myth that I'm some sort of glamorous lothario, but I was raised by women - my mother and her mother and my aunts - and as a result, most of my friends have always been women.

There are some public figures who are very private and almost hide behind their work. I try to be as open as possible.

One of the reasons why fundamentalists are so aggressive in trying to promote fundamentalism is because deep down they know it's arbitrary. If you're comfortable with your belief you don't need to convince other people to agree with you.

For me my biggest inspiration is trying to make music that effects me as much as the music made by my heroes.

There's a fairly extensive network of musicians on tour who are all trying to stay sober, and we generally reach out to each other and offer support when and where we can.

That's why I make music. When I listen to my favorite music made by other people, that's what it does to me. So as a musician, I'm just trying to do the same thing with music I make. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But 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.

I just want to try - on a daily basis keep trying - to make music that I really love.

I was trying to convince myself I could learn to be gay - but no. That's one of my great regrets.

My biggest concern is trying to keep crazy Republicans out of office.

I'm not trying to look for pity or sympathy. I was just surprised that so many people in the world of entertainment seemed to be okay with misogyny and homophobia as long as they were profiting from it.

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.

All I want to do with my life is try and make music that I really love, and so every day I try and work on music.

My interest in gospel music and liturgical art and Biblically-inspired literature has nothing to do with organised religion and everything to do with human beings trying to figure out their place on this planet.