So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
The artwork for the record is kind of an homage to that. It's a collage, which rhymes with homage, I just realized.… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
There are people that very strongly identify themselves as gay and then lesbian, and then I think there are a lot of… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
By the time I was 18, I had absorbed punk rock from America, Britain, and the West Coast. All of it was… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
For me, as a music fan, visuals kind of steal away the purity of the song. My instinct is not to provide… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
I went through this difficult time [in the 1984] when we were making our third record where I kind of lost my… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
When we signed with Warner Bros., they knew what they were getting. They knew they weren't going to get some easily manipulated… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
When I hear music as a fan, I see fields. I see landscapes. I close my eyes and see an entire universe… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
I'm kind of quoting Thurston [Moore] and Kim [Gordon] in saying that about not being great with addicts, because they are the… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
We don't get groupies.We get teenagers who want to read us their poetry. — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
At the [teenage] time, I did have an inkling of my sexuality. And I had an inkling that I was different from other people… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
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… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
I simply constructed a project to try to snap Kurt [Cobain] out of a frame of mind. I sent him a plane ticket and… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
I was vulnerable every day. Every night that I stepped on stage I was laying myself open. — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
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… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
[Columbia House] magazines were how I found out about the punk world going on in New York. Because of what I read, at the… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery. — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
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. — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
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,… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
They spoke truth and a lot of people listened.... that voice, Kurt we miss you. — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
A wise man once said-'the skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave,' — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
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