Moby
Moby
Richard Melville Hall, known by his stage name Moby, is an American singer-songwriter, musician, DJ and photographer. He is well known for his electronic music, veganism, and support of animal rights. Moby has sold over 20 million albums worldwide. AllMusic considers him "one of the most important dance music figures of the early 1990s, helping bring the music to a mainstream audience both in the UK and in America"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth11 September 1965
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I've never seen 'Friends;' I've never seen 'Seinfeld.' I've heard people reference these things but I've never seen them.
Success usually breeds a degree of hubris.
If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives.
If you look at someone like Joe Strummer or John Lennon, when you heard their music you knew that they wrote it and they cared about it.
I don't have children, but I imagine if parents are really pushed on the subject, they probably have favorite children.
I remember I went to Berlin right after the Wall came down. I first went to East Berlin, and all the buildings were old and falling down, and now when you go back to Berlin, you know you're in the East because all the buildings are brand new and very tall.
I joined Facebook purely so I could play online Scrabble. You have eight tiles instead of seven, so you tend to have higher scores. I'm somewhere between 400 and 500.
It's better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one.
If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be interested.
I need an audience way more than an audience needs me.
Sacha Baron Cohen is one of my heroes.
Music is just air moving around.
I've experienced tons of failure. I've been making music for 30 years, and I'd say failure and success have happened in equal measure.
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.