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.
MobyWho wakes up when they're worth £120million and says, 'I'm unhappy today but if only I had an extra £2million!'
MobyWhen I was very young, I played in a punk-rock band, but I also studied music theory and classical music.
MobyI 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.
MobyThough in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.
MobyWe live in this culture where there are so many things that want us to pretend that we’re not truly human. That we can be exempt from the human condition, either through intelligence or accomplishment or success or humor. Bu biologically we’re all the same. We all get sad, we all get happy, and we all die. Anyone who pretends that that’s not the case is either a sociopath or utterly delusional.
Moby