My feeling is that labels are for canned food… I am what I am – and I know what I am. – Michael Stipe
So, we just kind of created our own thing and thats part of the beauty of Athens: is that its so off the map and theres 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
Ive 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
Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. Its equally humbling and uplifting. – Michael Stipe
I heard about the project over a year before we began. My American agent said, Oh, you might want to read In Cold Blood because theyre talking about you for Capote, but the scripts with Johnny Depp and Sean Penn at the moment. So, these things take their time to dribble down the food chain. – Toby Jones
Money itself isnt lost or made, its simply transferred from one perception to another. This painting here. I bought it 10 years ago for 60 thousand dollars. I could sell it today for 600. The illusion has become real and the more real it becomes, the more desperately they want it. – Oliver Stone