Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious.

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

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

Be yourself. Follow your heart. I know it sounds obvious, but it's the best advice at anyone ever. Take advice from other people, but take from it what feels right for you.

My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him.

[Columbia House] magazines were how I found out about the punk world going on in New York. Because of what I read, at the age of 15, I hounded the local record store to order a copy of Horses [1975] for me by Patti Smith.

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.