Now we're in an age of singles. It's actually always been more about singles for most of music history.

It's always surprised me that mainstream America had the good taste to like R.E.M. It doesn't have the digestible quality the general public tends to look for in its favorite musicians.

The first horror movie I saw, in first or second grade, was My Bloody Valentine [1981], where there's a deranged killer in a miner mask stalking a small coal town.

There's a structure to a detective story that I can easily understand. I understand playing that particular game. It's like solving a puzzle. Or creating a puzzle.

I was never afraid on stage. That's where I was the least afraid. I could just do what I do and I had the amplification and the lights.

When you create a fence, you keep people out, but you also limit your mobility.

I have always wanted to be either a cinematographer or a veterinarian.

I've never had a mentor. I've always wanted one. I'm actually really disappointed that nobody took my under their wing.

Looking back, [R.E.M.]videos, by in large, have always been art films. I'm thinking of "Losing My Religion." That's a landmark piece.

There is a value to moving more slowly through a story.

There's also something sexual about watching the nubile girl in terror. But you do take on her fear as your own.

It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

Live each day with an open ear toward heaven, eager to respond to any whisper from God.

I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.

I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.

when I came to know Greek art I instantly understood that excess and perfection are enemies; yet on the other hand this world and the millions of worlds around us live by fire ... !

Cooperation for mutual benefit, a survival strategy very common in natural systems, is one that humanity needs to emulate.

People should meet an acceptable threshold of appropriateness. But for many women in the public eye, it just seems that the burden is so heavy.

My body is here, but my mind has already teed off.

You can take better care of your secret than another can.

I picked up a guitar, and I knew what I wanted to do.