In fact, a lot of critics seemed to consider R.E.M. the first American music since the '60s to break out on its own and develop a stand-alone sound.

Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious.

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.

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.

A wise man once said, 'The skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave.'

Love, love will be my strongest weapon

The only thing to fear is fearlessness.

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

Be yourself. Follow your heart. I know it sounds obvious, but it's the best advice at anyone ever. Take advice from other people, but take from it what feels right for you.

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.

A right delayed is a right denied.

(a womanist) 3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless.

I've got a buddy who will not watch me because he'll say 'I don't know who that dude is.'

Where there is movement, there is reach. Reach engenders communion.

There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.

I suppose the difference between baby people and me is that I do not consider smiling while farting 'holding up your end of a conversation.

I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot

You are what you believe yourself to be.

Twitter is so stupid. I mean, it sucks! It's not a good way to communicate and it's really difficult to use it for any functional thing.

I'm here in the mountains, in the foothills of the Catskills.