Michael Stipe Quotes

Getting on a plane and discovering that your seat belt won't fit around you was a moment of extreme horror. It was very hard to ignore.

They said, 'If we put you in first class with Brian, will you do it?' So I flew after not having flown in eight years. If there's one person who doesn't like flying as much as me, it's Brian.

Flying is awful, there's nothing to do when you're up in the air. I bloat up, my skin gets dry, and when we hit turbulence, I'm terrified.

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.

Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.

I would hate to be on a plane every day.

People don't talk to me on airplanes.

I hate flying, airports and the whole rigmarole - queuing up, security and lost luggage.

I hate flying. My stomach churns at the mere thought of it.

The idea of flying in general does not appeal to me. I can barely understand why people want to fly at all, other than that it's occasionally necessary.

I'm an appalling flyer. I get very tense, although I no longer weep uncontrollably for no reason - I just sob if there's turbulence.

Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.

If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.

I'm not a good flyer. Because I do it so much, I think the odds of something going wrong are not in my favour.

I used to love getting on planes. I loved the packing and going places. Now I don't because I've developed these really bad sinuses. I have to take a prednisone to fly, but it works, and I'm OK.

I think flying is kind of an emotional experience.

I was a nervous flyer before, but now I've gotten used to it.

If I'm on an airplane, a Kate Hudson movie is what I'm looking for. I'll sit there and I'll cry. I think it's the altitude or something like that.

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom - a learned habit, thanks to my learn-to-fly-calmly training - but like all former flying phobics, I retain a weird and feverish fascination with aviation news, especially bad news.

I used to hate flying. I would sit there, rigid, convinced that if I relaxed, the plane would drop out of the sky.

I am cursed with the inability to sleep on planes - ever.

I can be a bit of a nervous flyer.

Usually when I'm on a plane, I try to enjoy the fact that I have to be still for eight hours and read a book.

I had the feeling every time I was on a plane everyone was going to die. It was a horrible phobia. A stupid one.