Michael Stipe – 4 Quotes

4 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.

– Michael Stipe

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.

– Michael Stipe

My feeling is that labels are for canned food… I am what I am – and I know what I am.

– Michael Stipe

Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It’s equally humbling and uplifting.

– Michael Stipe