I realized that I don't like touring. I'll never complain about it because no one wants to hear about a relatively successful musician complain about the hardships of staying in a hotel.

Moby

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Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it, 'My appetite is more important than your suffering'?

eye suffering animal

People don't truly respond to something until they see the direct... by Moby

People don't truly respond to something until they see the direct consequences.

consequence direct people

My reason for becoming a vegetarian was simple: I loved (and love... by Moby

My reason for becoming a vegetarian was simple: I loved (and love) animals

and-love simple animal

Whether the Virgin Mary existed, I don't know. But the human need for her to appear in tortilla, that's what inspires my interest.

tortillas inspire needs

There's an aesthetic theme, which is cities at two o'clock in the morning. Not cities packed with people going out to clubs and dancing but desolate, empty streets. It's off-putting but there's a strange comfort to it as well, that desolate urban environment.

cities morning two

If the entire world decided to become vegan tomorrow, a whole host of the world's problems would disappear overnight. Climate change would decrease by 25 percent, deforestation would cease, rainforests would be preserved, our water- and air-quality would increase, life-expectancy rates would increase, and our rates of cancer would plummet, so certainly, with that one action of becoming vegan you are quite effectively making the world a better place.

cancer air water

To truly live a creative life means that you will need to experiment in as many different fields as possible.

different creative mean

I'm not sure how healthy it is to shoot police helicopters with b... by Moby

I'm not sure how healthy it is to shoot police helicopters with bazookas.

bazookas police healthy

Intellectually, human beings and animals may be different, but it's pretty obvious that animals have a rich emotional life and that they feel joy and pain. It's easy to forget the connection between a hamburger and the cow it came from. But I forced myself to acknowledge the fact that every time I ate a hamburger, a cow had ceased to breathe

emotional pain animal

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.

people ideas thinking

But when a man’s religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him.

earth men thinking

All of us little bald white guys wearing glasses kind of look the... by Moby

All of us little bald white guys wearing glasses kind of look the same.

glasses guy white

Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should ha... by Moby

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

enthusiasm should-have dog

Music can always serve a role in people's lives when it's emotional and warm and inviting and beautiful.

emotional beautiful people

I'm just fascinated with the world that I can see, but I'm even more fascinated with the world that I can't see.

fascinated i-can world

To me, one of the easiest ways of addressing climate change and potentially remedying climate change is to stop subsidizing animal agriculture.

agriculture climate animal

So in 1987 I gave up all animal products and became a vegan. Simply so that I could eat and live in accordance with my beliefs that animals have their own lives, that they're entitled to their own lives and that contributing to animal suffering is something that I don't want to be a part of.

suffering want animal

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.

home america people

When I can really open myself up to someone and show someone who I really am, it's amazing when it happens.

i-can shows happens

In a way I almost feel like the election of Donald Trump has inspired Democrats and progressives and punk rockers in a way that hasn't been seen since Vietnam.

vietnam election way