Michael Stipe

Super casual music listeners. That's most of the people in the world. And you have to understand, that's why Top 40 radio exists. It's not there for people who seek out music and who love music. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#exists #listeners #love #most #music

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

— Michael Stipe

#i #myself #period #reading #really

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

— Michael Stipe

#i #just #sexual

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

#always #canned #categorized #day #felt

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

#anyone #bob #bob dylan #bring #did

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

— Michael Stipe

#feet #hysterical #i #really #six

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

— Michael Stipe

#change #change the world #critics #early #failed

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

— Michael Stipe

#fascinating #had #i #just #lives

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

— Michael Stipe

#enigma #i #masses #mystery #poet

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

— Michael Stipe

#canned #feeling #food #i #i am