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.
rate
The future's ours, and you don't even rate a footnote 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...
eras radio golden
There was never a golden era of American radio as far as I can tell.
kind phenomenon international
We're kind of an international phenomenon.
teenage people way
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.
southern band athens
So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon.
tired im-tired wells
If I'm tired of me, I'm sure the public is as well.
tired mystery poet
I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.
ethos rocks heaven
The punk-rock ethos was "Do it yourself. Anyone can do this. We're not sent from the heavens."
ukulele band maps
When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map.
teenager want groupie
We don't get groupies.We get teenagers who want to read us their poetry.
teenage player guitar
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 band. So I, in a very naïve and teenage way, said, "That's it. I'm going to be in a band."