Michael Stipe Quotes

Ever since I was a little girl music was my escape and it was something that I did and was a huge part of me; aside from what my grades were in school. It was something that was truly mine.

Music is my release.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Music is an escape for me.

Music is my release.

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.

If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.

I've always heard music in my head since I was a little kid, so I've always played towards that. If I felt bad, that's what I did.

The idea of singing and dancing throughout my life and finding that bliss is something I wanted to express and explore within myself and hopefully spread that idea to other people.

Creativity, for me, is almost like therapy; my songs take you into the underbelly of my mind, and there's some dark stuff in there.

Music, for me, was something I did because I was disillusioned after the Cold War's end and did not know what I wanted in life.

Music is my expression. Music is my release. Music is my therapy.

It's really cathartic to play my songs live. I'm a really non-confrontational person, so my songs are kind of like all the things I never get to say to anyone.

If I don't feel anything, I don't write music.

I'll figure something out by writing a song about it.

At the end of the day, I use music to be able to communicate to people.

We all need ways of processing things. I think I was called to music because it was this thing that was always there for me that I could pour my heart into safely.

Music has always kind of been an escape for me.

There's so much stuff that you see every day that you want to talk about, but I'm not the type to open up, so the only way I could open up is through music.

Dancing is more than just moving body parts; it is a pathway of expressing your deepest inner thoughts.

Music is just where I sort of write my emotions down.

I definitely always took my problems and turned them into music, and the more I can make myself feel happy, the better. But yeah, I definitely feel like music was always a place for me to, like, escape to. I just love songs that are fantasy.

I live vicariously through my songs.

Songwriting really kicked in with the guitar. I was going through a lot as a kid. There had been a lot of transitions in my family. So it just became a total therapy, like most artists.