Anybody that walks can sing.

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

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

I was born in Georgia. That's where my grandparents-and all my people-are from. But my family traveled a great deal because my dad was in the army as a helicopter pilot.

Links have become the suburbs of the real world.

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 really wanted to be on Six Feet Under as a corpse. That would be hysterical.