I'm not homosexual, I'm not hetrosexual, I'm just sexual.

Our generation was supposed to be about trying to deal with nuclear concerns and environmental disasters.

When I write, I tend toward melancholy, and the few times that I've tried pure joy in music, it doesn't really work that well. The joy can be through catharsis. I think that's what I do well, and observation.

Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around.

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.

We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were sick to death of touring.

When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map.