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
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The future's ours, and you don't even rate a footnote now
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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'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.
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Nothing cataclysmic and positive is ever simple. But I think this is a great idea and perhaps we can get there.
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Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious...
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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I'm just not that fascinating a person to have had all those lives that I've written about.