international news _ 29th August, 2006
Moby Keeps It Reel
Text by Jonty Skrufff (Skrufff.com)
New York star Moby ramped up promotion for his upcoming Greatest Hits
compilation this week, with the publication of a typically spicy
retrospective career biography.
“I did an interview 15 years or so ago in which I said I was a vegan and a
Christian, and at the time I wasn't drinking,” he said, “That image still
follows me around - in Britain at least; in the rest of the world, they just
see me as this weird New York guy who makes records.”
The nowadays penitent superstar also stressed he’s delighted to have
renounced Puritanism, confessing “I was ideologically quite uptight in those
days and very rigid in my belief systems, but I've become a lot more relaxed
in recent years.”
“Why?,” he continued, “Because I realized it's a very complicated, nuanced,
multi-faceted world, and having inflexible belief systems just doesn't
work.”
He also owned up to being ‘obsessed with politics’ in the 1990's (‘I felt
everything in the world from a social and environmental perspective was
wrong’ he explained) which seemed markedly similar to his present day
outlook, expressed on his website journal at Moby.com
“It's worth remembering that most of our 'enemies' (Saddam, the Taliban,
Noriega, etc) were former allies who we helped to install in power,” he
pointed out in a lengthy diatribe against George Bush this week, “Fun fact:
the training base where al Qaeda trained in Afghanistan was originally set
up and funded by the CIA during the cold war,” he said.
Moby- ‘Very Best Of Moby’ is out on November 6.
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