Reading Quotes by Michael Stipe

We don't get groupies.We get teenagers who want to read us their poetry.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Michael Stipe

I was vulnerable every day. Every night that I stepped on stage I was laying myself open.

— 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…

— 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…

— Michael Stipe

I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.

— 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.

— 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,…

— Michael Stipe

They spoke truth and a lot of people listened.... that voice, Kurt we miss you.

— Michael Stipe

A wise man once said-'the skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave,'

— Michael Stipe