tavis: up next musician and deejay, moby, stay with us. tavis: please welcome moby back to this program, the popular deejay is out with a new album called "destroyed." and the long time activist posted a video about tax breaks. first from "destroyed," here is from the video, for today. ♪ i tried a thousand times, when the silver shines so hard. ♪ i tried to poison my life, always dreaming on the edge of the night. ♪ she always looked back and continued to take me in some more. ♪ tavis: moby, why is it important for you to be involved, i say this lovingly in every aspect of your craft. the writing, the producing, the instrumentation and the videos, you are involved in every aspect, why? >> when you say that it sounds narcistic. tavis: i said that lovingly, and prince did the same. >> i found it easier to do it myself and playing in bands and waiting for musicians to show up, and they rarely did. and if i teach myself i am not dependent on other people. tavis: that's what you gain by one-man show, do you lose anything? >> you lose the abilit

join me next time with musician and deejay moby and his campaign against corporate tax breaks. >> allame is james and he needs extra help with his reading. >> i'm james. >> yes. >> to everyone making a difference -- >> thank you. >> -- you help us all live better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley with every question and every answer, nationwide insurance is proud to join tavis in working to improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to economic empowerment one conversation at a time. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org--

they call it mobi-social. it's a way to get data from one device to another. they're not ready to start a company just yet. you know how this works. most likely, we'll be working for them someday. it gets to your tv quick. >> big pictures of you on my tv. >> there you go. right now. >> thank you. >> exactly. >>> that's going to do it for us tonight. jay leno is next. >> good night. >>> california's 9,900 public schools continue to grapple with tight budgets and ridiculously complicated spending mandates. now, more than ever, our schools need the freedom to spend money where it's needed. i'm suzanne shaw. with over 50 different spending mandates from county oversight to maintenance, our process of funding and reimbursing schools is inefficient, ineffective and broken. under governor schwarzenegger we begin to deregulate the system. and now, nbc calls on governor brown and the legislature, to make the flexibility in grant spending permanent. assembly bill 18 proposes to do just that. california's 43rd in per-student spending. and more cuts are coming. we owe it

join me next time with musician and deejay moby and his campaign against corporate tax breaks. >> allame is james and he needs extra help with his reading. >> i'm james. >> yes. >> to everyone making a difference -- >> thank you. >> -- you help us all live better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley with every question and every answer, nationwide insurance is proud to join tavis in working to improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to economic empowerment one conversation at a time. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- z?@ isn't that great? where did you get it from? i got it from a charity shop just down the road. very period, isn't it? i would think that's, what? mid 1950s, something like that? it's got the maker's name there, "thorens," who were quite a well-known maker at the time. "riviera" is the style. and you press, presumably, the red button, is it? - yeah. - and there we are. and it goes in the black button to stop. and it'

[laughter] one of them is moby dick. i'll crack it open at random and read, and its language is so weird and the story is so strange, and it's just reminds me of -- i mean, it's a jam-packed little book, you know? [laughter] it's like cold water splashing at my face because it reminds me of what a book can be, but it's so different from the way i think and speak and write that it doesn't, you know, it doesn't bleed into my story telling, and the other is charles adams, the cartoonistment i -- cartoonist. i have a big stack of his collections and flip through those. he's also just so delightful and strange and funny. it's like on those two -- it's just like a flick of a switch in me, you know? >> and i also wanted to ask, i'm doing a lot of research on my family and the history, and i'm part cherokee, but are you thinking about a book -- i mean, there's so many books on you, the -- well, i mean, not going to say that because there's not enough -- not the way that congress is going right now, so have you thought -- >> abou

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