We made part of the record in Miami, and I would go down to the beach, and not 20 feet from the water I see a fish that is at least seven feet long swimming close to the shore. I did not go back in the ocean the entire month.

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.