Moby ‘Best Of’ - Interview

Q34: Around the time that "18" came out you claimed you'd written about three thousand songs in your life to date. Are you still so prolific?

MOBY: I have my own studio here and because it's a one-person studio, I can come in here and I can be very prolific and very productive, so I'd say on average I write about 1 or 2 songs a day and so if you figure, if I do that 300 days out of the year, that's 600 songs a year, so the problem, when making a record, for me, is trying to figure out what music to include. Right now I'm trying to work on my next new record and maybe the next new record will have 15 songs on it, but I already have 400 songs written.

Not that they're 400 good songs, but they're 400 relatively finished compositions and so, yeah, it's like being the captain of a sinking ship where you have one lifeboat, you know, so you have 400 passengers and they're all looking at you eagerly, saying, "Please let me be the one to get on the lifeboat," and you have to say, "No" to 385 of them.
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