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 been an animal rights activist and a vegan for 28 years. The entire time, I've asked myself: How do I best advance an animal rights agenda?
I'm offended by the is-ought fallacy, which has been used to justify slavery, women not being allowed to vote, children working in factories.
The moment that you impose your will on another person or animal, that's when we are allowed to say you have committed an ethical breach.
I always just made music that resonates with me emotionally.
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.
When I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music.
To choose one type of music at the exclusion of another would feel kind of sad and arbitrary.
I think it'd be great if Prince made an album of just romantic, slow ballads.
My main interest is just to work with people who have beautiful, interesting, emotive voices; I'm not too concerned whether someone is famous.
I have nothing against bombastic music, but when it comes to making albums, I'd prefer to make music that has a sort of vulnerable subtlety to it.
An artist in 2014 who is thinking about album sales is either sadly deluded or has to make so many commercial compromises that it sort of takes the joy out of making music.
My goal is to make one-not a hodgepodge, but just the sort of record that I would want to listen to.
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 love lots of different types of music, but it's music that has this up-swelling of beauty and emotion that is most important to me.