Moby Quotes

Nice clothes fall apart. Nice clocks don't work. Bits fall off the nice cooker. It is hard to accept that pricing is unrelated to quality, but it's plainly true. Nowadays, we pay the price that satisfies our particular personality type; and then we live with the painful consequences.

We don't need fashion to survive, we just desire it so much.

An object should elicit desire, and often it happens not because people need it but because they love it.

Luxury is not a $4,000 T-shirt - that's just an expensive item, the same as if a can of Coca-Cola cost $5,000.

'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better.

You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.

I know the price of lettuce. You need to understand price and value. You buy the best lettuce you can at the best price you can.

Status-driven, conspicuous consumption thrives from the language of novelty.

In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.

Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling - 'Oh, blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Hermes; blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Saint Laurent; blah-blah blah' - because it's like a need, a tribe, recognition: 'Ahh, my Rolex.' But I run away from anything which is too recognizable - it's my nature.

There's nothing - I've bought everything I want. I don't like yachts or anything; you know, I'm not a yacht person, and I've got pretty much the nicest plane I'd want to have.

People recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.

It's sad, the enslavement of the black underclass to designer labels - we're an age that cares more about Versace than Vermeer.

Luxury takes many forms nowadays, but one thing doesn't change: luxury is about desire and the ability to create dreams.

I have a Mercedes. I wear a Rolex watch. I have no problem with the selling of things.

No matter what, I always have expensive designer shoes. It's all about the shoes for me.

When we have the means to pay for what we desire, what we get is not so much what is best, as what is costliest.

I look at the money I'm about to spend on myself and ask if IKEA's customers could afford it.

Real fashion is something you don't need - it's something you want.

I hear luxury brand names, I cringe.

People like their handbag more than their sofa, and I hate it.

Silicon Valley's definition of luxury is a Tesla in every garage.

I have Louis Vuitton everything. I'm obsessed.

One of my first big paychecks, I used it to buy a Rolex. I bought a used 1968 vintage Rolex. I was too cheap to buy a new one.

I believe that women would crawl across broken glass to get a cool pair of shoes.