Michael Stipe
Michael Stipe
John Michael Stipeis an American singer, songwriter, musician, film producer, music video director, and visual artist. He was the lyricist and lead singer of the alternative rock band R.E.M. from their formation in 1980 until their dissolution in 2011...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth4 January 1960
CityDecatur, GA
CountryUnited States of America
art black-and-white rocks
It was '86. We were a big enough name and we had enough cache that MTV wanted to play us, so, along with Michael Jackson and Madonna, they played our upside-down, black-and-white, backward, single unedited footage of a rock quarry with orange letters over the top of it and called it art.
sexy dark rocks
By the time I was 18, I had absorbed punk rock from America, Britain, and the West Coast. All of it was so dark and weird and different and cool and hot and sexy and rebellious. It was a fist-in-the-air kind of rebellion that I wasn't getting from the '70s mainstream.
ethos rocks heaven
The punk-rock ethos was "Do it yourself. Anyone can do this. We're not sent from the heavens."
voice rocks special
The whole point of the punk-rock thing was that "We're not special. We just have a voice."
sex rocks talking
Punk-rock records came out and you bought whatever you could find. But Devo didn't happen for another three years. Sex Pistols didn't tour the States until '78. At that time, for me, it was really about CBGB, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, the Ramones, and Television.
crucial essential felt help katrina life literally matter promoting safe service victims
It is crucial that the victims of Katrina get safe housing...and that's why www.hurricanehousing.org is available...to help those in need. As a band, we felt that promoting the service is essential - literally a matter of life and death,
crucial katrina safe victims
It is crucial that the victims of Katrina get safe housing,
appeal breeds country might outside people turned
But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt.
great perhaps positive
Nothing cataclysmic and positive is ever simple. But I think this is a great idea and perhaps we can get there.
bar contains offensive record since sticker surely
Since every record surely contains something offensive to someone, sticker them all. Make this as meaningless as the bar code.
peter programmed
My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him.
canned feeling food labels
My feeling is that labels are for canned food...I am what I am - - and I know what I am.
call powers strong venture
I feel that our powers as songwriters and co-partners in this venture that we call R.E.M. are as strong as they ever have been,
again blessing change curse hear loves songs trying
We're trying to change the set around but, again - a curse and a blessing - there are so many songs that everyone loves to hear every night.