There was a point in the '80s when I looked out at my audience and I saw people that - were I not on the stage - they'd sooner slug me as they walked by me on the sidewalk. And I realized that I was way beyond the choir.

Also in 2006 Stipe appeared on the song "Broken Promise" on the Placebo release Meds. He was also credited as a producer of the 2004 film Saved!. M.

Outside of the music industry he runs his own film production companies: C-00 and Single Cell Pictures. He was in charge of R. E.