Zitate und Sprüche von Michael Stipe

When you meet a stranger, look at his shoes. Keep your money in your shoes.

So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day.

Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around.

My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am.

I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.

Coming from a small town it was tough to dream big. When I grew up in a small town in Georgia, my biggest dream was one day to be able to go to Atlanta.

You really cannot set a standard, because Georgia is my home state, my home team. No other team can match what Georgia can offer. Schools cannot really match that, so that is an edge for Georgia.

The ridiculousness of thinking that some sort of global Illuminati wrote down their plot for killing of 95 % of humanity on a giant granit post-it note and left their secret plan somewhere no conservative would ever find it: rural Georgia.

In Texas, it's football. In Georgia, football. There's an appreciation from the average person about football more than anywhere else. And we have that for basketball in New York. And we'll always have that in New York.

I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia.

Georgia girls - the kind of girl you can take home to meet your mom, but can outdrink your dad.

For one, the 'countryness' is pretty much in my blood. I'm from Georgia, down south. That voice just lives in me.

Home is where the heart is and the heart is in Georgia.

Poor tree. Even you're sad to be stuck in the boonies of Columbus, Georgia.

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Georgia - and that's pretty much the same thing.

Mr. President, Ukraine did not "start" this war. Russia launched an unprovoked and brutal invasion claiming hundreds of thousands of lives. The Road to Peace must be built on the Truth.