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 made records that everyone has hated and I've loved, and made records that everyone has loved and I've deemed, at best, mediocre.
When I dj at big venues I try to play tracks that I would want to hear if I were e'd up in a field with 50,000 other people.
I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.
Lord, I want to be up in my heart.
Because we find somethings distasteful is not justification enough for us to deem them criminal.
I know it's simple, but my main inspiration is just my love of music. I know that sounds overly naive. But it's true.
I'm straight, but I love going to house music clubs and flirting with women and gay men.
If someone writes a nice review of my record, I feel like I should take them out to dinner or go over and clean their apartment.
Research performed on animals is, by definition, scientifically unsound.
How wondrous familiar is a fool!
I learned in the last few years that it's really unhappy and really unsustainable to try and base your well being on something as arbitrary as record sale and critical acclaim and the interests of the public. All of those things are so fickle. So my approach now to music is I want to make records that I love, and I hope that other people love them, then that's OK.
I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends.
For his sake I'm sorry that Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil, but for our sake and the sake of music I'm glad he did.
If I'm walking down the street and someone stops me and says, "Oh! A song that you wrote meant a lot to me, and I listened to it after I went to my sister's funeral," that's when it hits me.