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
rate
The future's ours, and you don't even rate a footnote now
canned feeling food labels
My feeling is that labels are for canned food...I am what I am - - and I know what I am.
work
There's a lot of work to be done. It's up to you.
affected believe cycle fine forget katrina moved news public
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.
great perhaps positive
Nothing cataclysmic and positive is ever simple. But I think this is a great idea and perhaps we can get there.
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.
girl sweet real
I had to get a driver's license and drive to St. Louis to find the punk-rock scene that was happening there. And there was a punk-rock scene. It was sweet. It was real. It was like everywhere else in the county. It was a handful of people who were feeling the same pull, and, of course, it was like the Island of Misfit Toys in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer [1964]. Just the freaks, the fags, the fat girls, the unbelievable eccentrics .
girl crazy boys
I remember traffic jams Motor boys and girls with tans Nearly was and almost rans I remember this, this ... At the edge of the continent
sexy dark rocks
By the time I was 18, I had absorbed punk rock from America, Britain, and the West Coast. All of it was so dark and weird and different and cool and hot and sexy and rebellious. It was a fist-in-the-air kind of rebellion that I wasn't getting from the '70s mainstream.
sex real teenager
I was a teenager, we were pretty much fully indoctrinated, thanks to sexual scare tactics. I remember so many public-health commercials with a B-actor in a fake alley background warning us to use protection or telling us the only real safe choice was abstinence. We were highly frightened of sex from day one. There was no free-swinging '90s.
feelings labels i-am-what-i-am
My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am.
sex rocks talking
Punk-rock records came out and you bought whatever you could find. But Devo didn't happen for another three years. Sex Pistols didn't tour the States until '78. At that time, for me, it was really about CBGB, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, the Ramones, and Television.
eras radio golden
There was never a golden era of American radio as far as I can tell.