Love, love will be my strongest weapon

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

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.

I'm just not that fascinating a person to have had all those lives that I've written about.

For every great thing we did, there is a very public moment of falling on our faces. But everything that came through us as a band was a distinct vision of R.E.M.

I'm afraid of everything. I'm not a naturally courageous person.

If I'm tired of me, I'm sure the public is as well.