When you meet a stranger, look at his shoes. Keep your money in your shoes. — Michael Stipe Money Copy Share Image
They spoke truth and a lot of people listened… that voice, Kurt we miss you. — Michael Stipe Fame Copy Share Image
“I'm not homosexual, I'm not heterosexual, I'm just sexual.” — Michael Stipe Heterosexual Copy Share Image
I'm not homosexual, I'm not hetrosexual, I'm just sexual. — Michael Stipe Homosexual 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
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
Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the… — Michael Stipe Decided 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
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
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
Because the casual music listeners are the ones who turn on the radio and they don't really care what's playing, they just… — Michael Stipe Care Copy Share Image
On planes I always cry. Something about altitude, the lack of oxygen and the bad movies. I cried over a St. Bernard… — Michael Stipe Bad movie Copy Share Image
We made part of the record in Miami, and I would go down to the beach, and not 20 feet from the… — Michael Stipe Beach Copy Share Image
I came to New York for the first time with Peter Buck at age 19. We spent a week living out of… — Michael Stipe Age Copy Share Image
Once I reached my 40s, I thought to myself that if I'm going to play live now, I need to really mean… — Michael Stipe Choices Copy Share Image
I knew [Kurt Cobain] and his daughter. And Courtney [Love] came and stayed at my house. R.E.M. worked on two records in… — Michael Stipe Bucks 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
There tend to be two different drives that lead young people toward music. One is that music provides an escape; it takes… — Michael Stipe Believe Copy Share Image
By the time [of modern] generation was coming of age sexually, there was already this idea of safe sex. But that didn't… — Michael Stipe Age Copy Share Image
AIDS had landed and I was terrified. I was very scared, just as everyone was in the '80s. It was really hard… — Michael Stipe 80s Copy Share Image
We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the… — Michael Stipe Culmination 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 am not an autobiographical writer. I'll take little elements here and there from things that I've actually experienced-counting eyelashes on a… — Michael Stipe Autobiographical 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 was born in Georgia. That's where my grandparents-and all my people-are from. But my family traveled a great deal because my… — Michael Stipe Army Copy Share Image
I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled,… — Michael Stipe Age Copy Share Image
The world of WONDERLAND is authentic, vibrant, and genuine. Stacey D’Erasmo explores the delight and terror of second chances. A great read! — Michael Stipe Books 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 stopped taking drugs [in 1983]. There were a lot of things that led up to it. One thing was that a… — Michael Stipe Car 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 Artwork Copy Share Image
I distinctly remember a conversation with my band in the van where I was having a complete meltdown. It was 1984, I… — Michael Stipe Band 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
I started lip-synching with "Losing My Religion." There were a few horrendous mistakes we made, but I own those mistakes. I'm embarrassed… — Michael Stipe Done Copy Share Image
When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map. — Michael Stipe Athens Copy Share Image
I really wanted to be on Six Feet Under as a corpse. That would be hysterical. — Michael Stipe Corpse Copy Share Image
I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself. — Michael Stipe Periods Copy Share Image
When I get really hammered I take my clothes off. That's a sure sign. It's been a long time since the last… — Michael Stipe Clothes Copy Share Image
I remember traffic jams Motor boys and girls with tans Nearly was and almost rans I remember this, this ... At the… — Michael Stipe Boy and girl Copy Share Image
![“I knew [Kurt Cobain] and his daughter. And Courtney [Love] came and stayed at my house. R.E.M. worked on two records in Seattle and Peter Buck lived next door to Kurt and Courtney. So we all knew each other. I reached out to him with that project as an attempt to prevent what was going to happen.” quote by Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3e2/michael-stipe-6714_bucks_i-knew-kurt-cobain-and-his-daughter-and_1843291.jpg)
![“By the time [of modern] generation was coming of age sexually, there was already this idea of safe sex. But that didn't exist for me. I came out of the free-swinging '60s and '70s. It was free love, baby. That was it. We had very liberal sex-ed classes in 1973, a yearlong environmental science…” quote by Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d65/michael-stipe-6714_age_by-the-time-of-modern-generation-was-com_2424111.jpg)
![“[Columbia House] magazines were how I found out about the punk world going on in New York. Because of what I read, at the age of 15, I hounded the local record store to order a copy of Horses [1975] for me by Patti Smith.” quote by Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b4f/michael-stipe-6714_age_columbia-house-magazines-were-how-i-foun_159607.jpg)
![“I simply constructed a project to try to snap Kurt [Cobain] out of a frame of mind. I sent him a plane ticket and a driver, and he tacked the plane ticket to the wall in the bedroom and the driver sat outside the house for 10 hours. Kurt wouldn't come out and wouldn't answer the phone.” quote by Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/208/michael-stipe-6714_answers_i-simply-constructed-a-project-to-try-to_117192.jpg)
![“I stopped taking drugs [in 1983]. There were a lot of things that led up to it. One thing was that a lover died. An ex of mine died in a car wreck and I was really trashed when I found out about it and I couldn't cry. I woke up the next morning and I said, "That's it," so I quit then. It was…” quote by Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/af8/michael-stipe-6714_car_i-stopped-taking-drugs-in-1983-there-wer_859238.jpg)
