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#654 Moby - The Cult of More & Loneliness

Mental Illness Happy Hour

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The Importance of Being a Rockstar Name

Moby was born Richard Melville Hall, but his parents called him Moby because they thought it was too grand and grown up of a name for a little baby. When he finally admitted to himself that he was an addict, "I did feel this almost slightly like resigned sense of like, oh, well, I guess there is truth to the nature versus nurture" Some of your happiest moments were squatting in a factory at what, 1920? He's 57 years old; if you call me by my real name, I don't know who you're talking to. It's such a great rockstar name too.

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