Michael Stipe Quotes & Sayings

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

“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.”

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

“Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around.”

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

“I'm not homosexual, I'm not hetrosexual, I'm just sexual.”

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

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

“My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him.”

“There was a point in the '80s when I looked out at my audience and I saw people that - were I not on the stage - they'd sooner slug me as they walked by me on the sidewalk. And I realized that I was way beyond the choir.”