Does an ideal night out in New York involve gay clubs?
On occasion, but the only problem is that I live right next to the Lower East Side, and all the good gay clubs are in Chelsea — and I’m nothing if not provincial. Also, the bigger gay clubs — and bigger clubs in general — kind of turn me off. I almost prefer a sleazy dive bar to a big shiny new club. I’m really not particularly classy when it comes to my taste in bars and nightclubs. I’ve been to Motor City on Ludlow Street probably about 500 times. Last Nightis your most dance-oriented album in years. Will you still be making dance music even when you look like the “nursing-home Moby” from your “Natural Blues” video? Maybe not when I’m in my 90s, although who knows? It’s funny, because dance music is slowly becoming like a musical idiom, almost like folk music or jazz. I did a photo shoot recently for Mix mag’s 25th anniversary, and the average age of the people in the shoot was probably around 40. It’s just funny that this very progressive, technologically driven musical genre is