We don't get groupies.We get teenagers who want to read us their poetry. — Michael Stipe Groupie 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… — Michael Stipe Different 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… — Michael Stipe Constant 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… — Michael Stipe Answers Copy Share Image
I was vulnerable every day. Every night that I stepped on stage I was laying myself open. — Michael Stipe Every day 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… — Michael Stipe Absolutely 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,… — Michael Stipe Age Copy Share Image
I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery. — Michael Stipe Enigma 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… — Michael Stipe Abuse 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… — Michael Stipe Can do Copy Share Image
They spoke truth and a lot of people listened.... that voice, Kurt we miss you. — Michael Stipe Fame Copy Share Image
A wise man once said-'the skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave,' — Michael Stipe Attending Copy Share Image
Anything you do as a group is fraught with compromise... But everyone 's got to do that, right? It's part of being… — Michael Stipe Compromise Copy Share Image
To be called an elder statesman is so unbelievably insulting. Brad Pitt is exactly three years younger than me. — Michael Stipe Aging Copy Share Image
“Death is pretty final./I'm collecting vinyl./I'm gonna DJ at the end of the world/'cause if heaven does exists/with a kickin' playlist/I don't… — Michael Stipe Death Copy Share Image
So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American… — Michael Stipe Athens 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 Homage 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 Gay Copy Share Image
But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and… — Michael Stipe American Copy Share Image
I'm just not that fascinating a person to have had all those lives that I've written about. — Michael Stipe Fascinating Copy Share Image
If you disagree with me, fine! Because that's the great thing about America, we can disagree! — Michael Stipe America Copy Share Image
Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting. — Michael Stipe Humbling Copy Share Image
You don't need to be talented. You don't even have to play the guitar to be a guitar player in a punk-rock… — Michael Stipe Band Copy Share Image
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