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> [I was a teenager, we were pretty much fully indoctrinated, thanks to sexual scare tactics. I remember so many public-health commercials with a B-actor in a fake alley background warning us to use protection or telling us the only real…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/i-was-a-teenager-we-were-pretty-much-fully-indoctrinated-thanks-to/)

[Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/)

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> [I was vegetarian, trying to eat from fast-food restaurants without meat. I didn't know how to eat properly and I was starving. I was adrenalized to the eyeballs from performing. I was afraid that I was sick with AIDS. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/i-was-vegetarian-trying-to-eat-from-fast-food-restaurants-without/)

[Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/)

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## More by Michael Stipe

> [We don't get groupies.We get teenagers who want to read us their poetry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/we-don-t-get-groupies-we-get-teenagers-who-want-to-read-us-their/)

[Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/)

> [ At the \[teenage\] time, I did have an inkling of my sexuality. And I had an inkling that I was different from other people… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/at-the-teenage-time-i-did-have-an-inkling-of-my-sexuality-and-i-had/)

[Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/)

> [I don't find R.E.M. to be nihilistic. There is a constant undertone of joyous optimism. I'm not going to kill myself to Patti Smith…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/i-don-t-find-r-e-m-to-be-nihilistic-there-is-a-constant-undertone-of/)

[Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/)

> [ I simply constructed a project to try to snap Kurt \[Cobain\] out of a frame of mind. I sent him a plane ticket and… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/i-simply-constructed-a-project-to-try-to-snap-kurt-cobain-out-of-a/)

[Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/)

> [I was vulnerable every day. Every night that I stepped on stage I was laying myself open.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/i-was-vulnerable-every-day-every-night-that-i-stepped-on-stage-i-was/)

[Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/)

> [We're absolutely American and distinctly so, I think. That's part of what people respond to outside of this country, part of the reason that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/we-re-absolutely-american-and-distinctly-so-i-think-that-s-part-of/)

[Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/)

> [ \[Columbia House\] magazines were how I found out about the punk world going on in New York. Because of what I read, at the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/columbia-house-magazines-were-how-i-found-out-about-the-punk-world/)

[Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/)

> [I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/i-m-tired-of-being-this-solemn-poet-of-the-masses-the-enigma-shrouded/)

[Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/)

> [Frankly I'm not great with heroin addicts. I tried heroin, but it was by accident. I'm not great with that level of substance abuse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/frankly-i-m-not-great-with-heroin-addicts-i-tried-heroin-but-it-was/)

[Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/)

> [The whole punk ethic was do-it-yourself, and I've always been very literal, especially as a kid. When they said that anybody can do this,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/the-whole-punk-ethic-was-do-it-yourself-and-i-ve-always-been-very/)

[Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/)

> [They spoke truth and a lot of people listened… that voice, Kurt we miss you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/they-spoke-truth-and-a-lot-of-people-listened-that-voice-kurt-we-miss/)

[Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/)

> [A wise man once said-'the skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave,'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/a-wise-man-once-said-the-skill-in-attending-a-party-is-knowing-when/)

[Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/)

> [They always want me to play myself and that's a big snooze.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/they-always-want-me-to-play-myself-and-that-s-a-big-snooze/)

[Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/)

> [Anything you do as a group is fraught with compromise... But everyone 's got to do that, right? It's part of being a good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/anything-you-do-as-a-group-is-fraught-with-compromise-but-everyone-s/)

[Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/)

> [To be called an elder statesman is so unbelievably insulting. Brad Pitt is exactly three years younger than me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/to-be-called-an-elder-statesman-is-so-unbelievably-insulting-brad/)

[Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/)

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