I am not an autobiographical writer. I'll take little elements here and there from things that I've actually experienced-counting eyelashes on a sleeping beauty, for example.
Michael StipeI was vulnerable every day. Every night that I stepped on stage I was laying myself open.
Michael StipeMy iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him.
Michael StipeI'm kind of quoting Thurston [Moore] and Kim [Gordon] in saying that about not being great with addicts, because they are the ones who said it to me.
Michael Stipe