Moby on Fame, Fortune, Addiction, Animals - Ep 108

Reasonably Happy with Paul Ollinger · May 18, 2021 · 51m

Moby’s first job as a DJ was spinning records at a dive bar next to a methadone clinic. A few years later, he was rich and famous, but "never felt more depressed.” Having grown up as "poor white trash” in the wealthy town of Darien, CT, Moby's financial status made him feel like a “third-class citizen.” Decades after selling over 20 million albums, winning all kinds of awards, and experiencing "baffling success," he still feels disenfranchised. The massive, unpredictable success of his 1999 album, Play set an incredibly high bar against which the press and he himself measured his subsequent…