Quotes by Michael Stipe

About Michael Stipe:

John Michael Stipe is an American singer, lyricist, film producer and visual artist. He is best known as the lead singer of the alternative rock band R.E.M. from their formation in 1980 until their dissolution in 2011.
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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.

Michael Stipe

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.

Michael Stipe

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

Michael Stipe

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

Michael Stipe

Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around.

Michael Stipe

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

Michael Stipe

We made part of the record in Miami, and I would go down to the beach, and not 20 feet from the water I see a fish that is at least seven feet long swimming close to the shore. I did not go back in the ocean the entire month.

Michael Stipe

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

Michael Stipe

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

Michael Stipe

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.

Michael Stipe

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.

Michael Stipe

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

Michael Stipe

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

Michael Stipe

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.

Michael Stipe

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

Michael Stipe

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

Michael Stipe

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.

Michael Stipe

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.

Michael Stipe

There was a point in the '80s when I looked out at my audience and I saw people that - were I not on the stage - they'd sooner slug me as they walked by me on the sidewalk. And I realized that I was way beyond the choir.

Michael Stipe

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

Michael Stipe

Author Bio

  • NameMichael Stipe
  • DescriptionSinger for R.E.M. and visual artist
  • AliasesJohn Michael Stipe; JMS
  • BornJanuary 4, 1960
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger; Actor; Restaurateur; Singer-songwriter; Film Producer; Voice Actor; Musician; Songwriter; Composer