Actually, the most entitled people I've met are indie rockers and indie actors, because they really believe their press.
— Moby
NASA is an utterly fascinating place, and the fact that the buildings look so anonymous almost makes it more fascinating. You walk by a generic office-park-looking building, and you have no idea what's going on inside.
The way I work on music is that I go into my studio, and I start playing music, and I see what happens, and... I never think about it.
I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult.
I buy things with the best of intention of living in them and then life intercedes.
But at the same time, I don't let myself regret things to the point that I'm paralyzed.
Whereas for me, touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience.
I still never get recognized. Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same.
I'm like a monk with a taste for hookers.
If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives.
Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.
I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to.
But on a utilitarian level, I realize that to try to accomplish the greatest good for the greatest number of people, sometimes we have to become salesmen for what we believe, and part of being a salesman is being effective.
I find myself for whatever reason unable to live in the apartment I renovate and have to sell.
Some of the songs I've made, I'm really disappointed in how I mixed them.
I love the idea of making records that people can use, records that have a sense of utility.
I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He's got such a wicked sense of humor.
I've worked with all sorts of random people - everybody from Metallica to Britney Spears to Ozzy Osbourne to Michael Jackson to the Beastie Boys. I've got a really strange CV. It's interesting - I work with a lot of these disparate, different people to learn what it's like to work with random people.
I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good.
That is not all I need. I need dogs. A house filled with dogs and a smart, funny, kind, loving girlfriend or wife.
I run into a lot of people who are instantly filled with ridicule at the idea that someone wouldn't eat meat.
You make mistakes and you learn from them.
I love going on tour and playing music for people.
I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms.
If I was a sex symbol, I would be getting laid a lot more than I am now.
