Moby: "'Arbitrary' and 'odd' are the words which best describe the pattern of my career. I'm perpetually baffled by the whole thing."

Moby: "Every single day the world seems like it is on the brink of falling apart. But then I look outside my window, and things look about the same as they did a week ago. It's almost a form of cognitive dissonance."

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

Moby: "I have no patience for anyone who thinks they've figured things out, no patience for people who think they're right at the expense of everyone else. The world is too connected and too complicated to conform to any of our rigid ideas of what it should be like."

Moby: "I'm obsessed with politics, and I talk about it any chance I can get. I have strong opinions about how the world should be run."

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

Moby: "One of the reasons why fundamentalists are so aggressive in trying to promote fundamentalism is because deep down they know it's arbitrary. If you're comfortable with your belief you don't need to convince other people to agree with you."

Moby: "I know, in my heart of hearts, I don't do things for money."

Moby: "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."

Moby: "Traffic terrifies me."

Moby: "What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay."

Moby: "I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive."

Moby: "In the course of my life, I've made some happy songs but it's the more sort of like pathos-laden, emotional, melancholic music that either I make or that other people make that really resonates with me."

Moby: "If you care about women's rights, you can't not vote."

Moby: "I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance."

Moby: "If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives."

Moby: "It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day."

Moby: "I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist."

Moby: "A great song is a great song, whether it's on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Then again, that might be an overly optimistic view, but I do think that great music will transcend the medium in which it is delivered."

Moby: "Personally I find the democratic chaos of the Internet fascinating, and for the most part really benign."

Moby: "There are a lot of people in the animal rights movement who can be very passionate and aggressive, and I applaud people's passion, but when people are judgmental and aggressive, all you end up doing is getting other people to turn away in irritation. To change people's minds, you have to respect the people you're talking to."

Moby: "I love the idea of making records that people can use, records that have a sense of utility."

Moby: "Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn."

Moby: "It's a very strange phenomenon being hated by people you've never met. Some journalists just seem to hate me and everything I do, and it's disconcerting because I've never met this person."

Moby: "Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach."