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Moby

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 11, 1965

In a perfect world, I would be 6-foot-3 and have a perfect head of hair and look like Orlando Bloom.

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Musically, New York is a big influence on me. Walk down the street for five minutes and you'll hear homeless punk rockers, people playing Caribbean music and reggae, sacred Islamic music and Latino music, so many different types of music.

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Many of my friends back in New York and elsewhere have a glib or dismissive attitude toward Los Angeles. It's a place of strip malls and traffic and not much else, in their opinion.

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If you're inclined to dismiss L.A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L.A. a huge disservice, and you're just not looking hard enough.

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I'm envious of people who can sleep as long as they want. I have the circadian rhythm of a farmer.

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I like tea and yoga, but I don't do yoga.

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There are a lot of great animal rights organizations who save dogs and save cats, but the Humane Society is actually really good at working with Congress and getting legislation actually passed.

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For better or worse, I'm interested in just about everything: every different type of music I can imagine. I can never see a reason to choose just one type of music at the exclusion of everything else. Different types of music are capable of being rewarding in different kinds of ways.

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Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist.

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You can sit down with Reason or Ableton and literally in a couple of hours make a very good-sounding record. But then a lot of people become contented with that, rather than pushing themselves to making something that sounds great.

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I may be a lifelong 'downtowner,' but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City.

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If you make a record, you should ask yourself, 'Did it make someone cry, in a good way, not a bad way?' There should almost be subjective emotional criteria for evaluating work, instead of just profitability.

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The term 'renaissance man' is always bandied about. I don't think that applies to me. You think about Leonardo da Vinci, and he was a painter and a physicist and an architect, and that is a true renaissance man.

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Scotland is one of my favourite places to perform: it's really something special. Scottish audiences are just so enthusiastic; their approach to dance music just feels similar to my own somehow.

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If I was a sex symbol, I would be getting laid a lot more than I am now.

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I still never get recognized. Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same.

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I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms.

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Whereas for me, touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience.

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I love going on tour and playing music for people.

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Some of the songs I've made, I'm really disappointed in how I mixed them.

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