folk rock

 Michael Stipe [born 1960] updates us here.

"I'm my own worst critic. It helps keep you searching and trying to expand and to grow and not settling into something that's familiar and something that I think ultimately creates stasis. I want to keep moving and keep learning. And not to know everything."
- Michael Stipe 

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"It's really fun to be famous, I'm sorry. And to be looked at and considered successful is great. [But] for every single person in this world who thinks I'm successful and great, there's someone else who thinks I'm a sham and just so full of myself and a walking piece of shit as an artist, and that's ok."
- Michael Stipe

Trusting Instinct

"An artist starts at the bottom of the circle with no knowledge and moves through an education until he or she reaches the top of the circle, at which point they know everything there is to know about their craft and their field and their medium, at which point they become a craftsperson. It's when you move beyond that and and start to move back down forgetting everything you've learned that you come back to a place where you're trusting instinct and your unconscious bliss."
- Michael Stipe

I was alive today

"The day isn't complete unless I've created something."
- Patti Smith [born 1946]