Michael Stipe
Michael Stipe
John Michael Stipeis an American singer, songwriter, musician, film producer, music video director, and visual artist. He was the lyricist and lead singer of the alternative rock band R.E.M. from their formation in 1980 until their dissolution in 2011...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth4 January 1960
CityDecatur, GA
CountryUnited States of America
canned feeling food labels
My feeling is that labels are for canned food...I am what I am - - and I know what I am.
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The future's ours, and you don't even rate a footnote now
work
There's a lot of work to be done. It's up to you.
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The news cycle has moved on and I don't want the public to forget about those who were affected by Katrina or to believe that everything is fine now.
confused thinking confusion
Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious...
sleep eyelashes elements
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 sleeping beauty, for example.
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My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am.
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There was never a golden era of American radio as far as I can tell.
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We're kind of an international phenomenon.
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At the [teenage] time , I did have an inkling of my sexuality. And I had an inkling that I was different from other people in ways beyond my sexuality. But I didn't get into music because I thought, Oh, these people will understand me.
feet would-be six
I really wanted to be on Six Feet Under as a corpse. That would be hysterical.
oxygen cry embarrassing
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.
spiritual believe somewhere-else
There tend to be two different drives that lead young people toward music. One is that music provides an escape; it takes you away from the unhappiness or torture of where you are and makes you feel less alienated-you believe there is a place you fit in somewhere else. The other is a sort of transcendent, spiritual feeling in the purity of music.
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[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.