Actually, the most entitled people I’ve met are indie rockers and indie actors, because they really believe their press.
For some reason New York is the epicentre for people who hate me. Maybe this is another reason why I left New York but I get more hatred directed towards me there than any other place.
A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music.
A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It’s big and scary and they get lost.
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.
I’d much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive.
Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn’t exist.
I like tea and yoga, but I don’t do yoga.
I run into a lot of people who are instantly filled with ridicule at the idea that someone wouldn’t eat meat.
I still never get recognized. Small, bald white guys like myself – we all kind of look the same.
I wasn’t raised Catholic; I just really like the image of a neutral and benign Mary floating around somewhere, being nice to people.
I feel like the vast majority of the world’s problems would disappear if suddenly everyone on the planet were relatively self-aware and capable of honest self-love and compassion.
I’d much rather go out and have music randomly presented to me by different DJs than stay home and discover it on my own.
It’s sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I’m ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences.
I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good.
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.
I don’t have children, but I imagine if parents are really pushed on the subject, they probably have favorite children.
I don’t sleep very well when I travel. And as a result, I tend to be awake in cities when everyone else is asleep.
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.
I have no perspective as regards my work. One reason I put out records and books is people respond to it, and it enables you to actually see the work more clearly. It’s a form of therapy for me. Sometimes abusive therapy.