138 Quotes by Michael Stipe

We don't get groupies.We get teenagers who want to read us their poetry.

The whole punk ethic was do-it-yourself, and I've always been very literal, especially as a kid. When they said that anybody can do this, I was like, 'OK, that's me.'

To be called an elder statesman is so unbelievably insulting. Brad Pitt is exactly three years younger than me.

They spoke truth and a lot of people listened.... that voice, Kurt we miss you.

We're kind of an international phenomenon.

Anybody that walks can sing..

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

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.

There tend to be two different drives that lead young people toward music. One is that music provides an escape; it takes you away from the unhappiness or torture of where you are and makes you feel less alienated-you believe there is a place you fit in somewhere else. The other is a sort of transcendent, spiritual feeling in the purity of music.