Michael Stipe - Quotes

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I'm not homosexual, I'm not hetrosexual, I'm just sexual. ---->>>

Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around. ---->>>

I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food. ---->>>

When you meet a stranger, look at his shoes. Keep your money in your shoes. ---->>>

I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed. ---->>>

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

My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him. ---->>>

When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map. ---->>>

On planes I always cry. Something about altitude, the lack of oxygen and the bad movies. I cried over a St. Bernard movie once on a plane. That was really embarrassing. ---->>>

But I think the one thing that I can say about us is that we're very consistent about certain things and part of that is our desire to do the very best work that we can and not rest on our laurels, or not allow formula to come into what we do. ---->>>

So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off the map and there's no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. ---->>>




I really wanted to be on Six Feet Under as a corpse. That would be hysterical. ---->>>

If you disagree with me, fine! Because that's the great thing about America, we can disagree! ---->>>

I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself. ---->>>


There are people that very strongly identify themselves as gay and then lesbian, and then I think there are a lot of people who are kind of some percentage or some version of that. ---->>>

And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did - and really didn't - in the 1960s. ---->>>

There was never a golden era of American radio as far as I can tell. ---->>>

They always want me to play myself and that's a big snooze. ---->>>

When I get really hammered I take my clothes off. That's a sure sign. It's been a long time since the last time I did that. Probably a year. ---->>>

Because the casual music listeners are the ones who turn on the radio and they don't really care what's playing, they just know that they kinda like it or it's easy to drive to or it's easy to sing along to or whatever. ---->>>


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 we're such a huge band outside of the U.S., where we're not so popular now as we were 10 or 12 years ago. ---->>>

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 it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt. ---->>>

I'm just not that fascinating a person to have had all those lives that I've written about. ---->>>

If I'm tired of me, I'm sure the public is as well. ---->>>

Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin. ---->>>

We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were sick to death of touring. ---->>>


Nationality: American
Born: 01-04, 1960
Birthplace: in Decatur, Georgia, The United States
Occupation: Musician
