138 Quotes by Michael Stipe

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.

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.

So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off the map and there's no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing.

When I get really hammered I take my clothes off. That's a sure sign. It's been a long time since the last time I did that. Probably a year.

If you disagree with me, fine! Because that's the great thing about America, we can disagree!

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

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

I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed.

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