Quotes by Michael Stipe

When you meet a stranger, look at his shoes. Keep your money in your shoes.

So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day.

Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around.

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

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