#ow

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them. ↗

— Sting

#arena #claim #create #enter #i

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere. ↗

— Sting

#emote #failure #go #i #know

My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#canned #feeling #food #i #i am

But I think the one thing that I can say about us is that we're very consistent about certain things and part of that is our desire to do the very best work that we can and not rest on our laurels, or not allow formula to come into what we do. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#allow #best #best work #certain #certain things

So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#athens #band #being #coast #east

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. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#beach #close #did #down #entire

We're absolutely American and distinctly so, I think. That's part of what people respond to outside of this country, part of the reason that we're such a huge band outside of the U.S., where we're not so popular now as we were 10 or 12 years ago. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#ago #american #band #country #distinctly

And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties. ↗

— James Stockdale

#had #i #laws #mean #our

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do. ↗

— James Stockdale

#done #felt #got #grown #grown man

There was nothing there but black water and American fire power. ↗

— James Stockdale

#black #fire #nothing #power #water