Michael Stipe Believe Quotations

The news cycle has moved on and I don't want the public to forget about those who were affected by Katrina or to believe that everything is fine now.

There tend to be two different drives that lead young people toward music. One is that music provides an escape; it takes you away from the unhappiness or torture of where you are and makes you feel less alienated-you believe there is a place you fit in somewhere else. The other is a sort of transcendent, spiritual feeling in the purity of music.