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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

People

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.

Michael Stipe

People

So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day.

I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.

I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.

It has very little to do with my work, but if your image is not sexy enough, people won't listen. It's part of the game.

Sting

Work

People

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.

There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that it is a time for me to use all the restraint I can on these other people who have been apparently getting a little more irritated.

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.

The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art.

During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.

I ask myself why I do it. Maybe it's to prove I'm still around. It takes a lot out of my body. I'm not an NBA player anymore. At my age, very few people can handle it.

We managed to hang in there. Today when people get married there's a tendency to run away when things get tough. There is a lot of strength in hanging together.

I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor.

I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.