Talking to ‘FaceCulture’, Moby speaks of how his first exposure to music started as early as 10 years old, when he learnt classical guitar off his teacher. He speaks of his teacher’s “love of intricate music”, and how in a way this influenced him despite his divergence into punk rock in his teens. “It’s my musical theory” he states that allows him to have a basis of understanding across any genre that he might be experimenting in. Making “one or two hundred songs a year”, Moby spends an immense amount of his life being engrossed by his music; making most of it in morning’s small hours as a result of being a chronic insomniac. In addition to making his own music, Moby invests his time as member of the board of directors for ‘The Institute for Music and Neurological Funtion’; researched focused on the healing properties of music and it’s ability to promote ‘Neurogenesis’ (the production of new brain cells).

Moby is a distinct artist and isn’t loved in a mainstream way; to him Moby states people’s reason to be that “people love to hate something” and simply that “that’s the nature of the industry”. As a result of Moby’s opinionated personality, he’s inevitably clashed with journalists and other artists alike; most notably Eminem. Calling him a “misogynist, a homophobe, a racist, and an anti-Semite” at the Grammy’s, Eminem retailiated with a line at the end of his song “Without Me”, stating “You thirty six year old bald headed fag, blow me”. The nature of the industry.

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