Michael Stipe

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

If you disagree with me, fine! Because that's the great thing about America, we can disagree!

On planes I always cry. Something about altitude, the lack of oxygen and the bad movies. I cried over a St. Bernard movie once on a plane. That was really embarrassing.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.

If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.