Moby ‘Best Of’ - Interview

MOBY: If I had to pick a career highlight, it would probably be a few years ago, I was getting ready to perform at Carnegie Hall to do a fundraiser with David Bowie and we wanted to do an acoustic version of "Heroes" and so he came over here to my apartment one day and at 10 in the morning I sat down with my acoustic guitar with David Bowie sitting in my living room and we did an acoustic version of "Heroes" together and that was amazing.

Q38: What would you be doing if you weren't a musician and why?

MOBY: If I weren't a musician, I guess I'd either like to be an architect or a politician, which are both sort of megalomaniacal things to want to do, but architecture and politics, outside of music, are probably my two favourite things. Although now it seems like a lot of musicians and public figures want to do architecture, which is narcissistic of us, but at the same time, architecture is amazing, because it's the only form of creative expression that you can't turn off or you can't close your eyes and make it go away.

Buildings are so substantial and so significant and they impact every aspect of people's lives, so I think that's one reason why so many people are drawn towards architecture.

Q39: Finally, what's next after the Best Of?

MOBY: So, we're putting out the Best Of in the autumn and then hopefully at some point after that, I'll make another new record. I already have about 4 or 500 songs written for it and it might not come out until I would guess spring of 2007, maybe autumn of 2007, so I have to figure out (a) what type of record it's going to be: Do I make another punk rock record? Do I make a dance record? Who knows… and then, you know, figure out what songs I like enough to put on the record.page << 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 >>