Michael Stipe discusses his continued friendship with his old R.E.M. bandmates. “There’s this beautiful, really deep, profound love and respect for each other that allowed us to make it all the way through.”
,” really important songs to me. I think they’re beautiful songs. I don’t think they’re the best thing I ever did, but, for me, those songs defined a new way of planting my feet on the ground, folding my arms across my chest, and saying, I am here, I’m not fucking going anywhere, and I’m going to do the best I can. And then I had purpose. I think that was realized and cauterized in “Document.
It’s recent. In fact, I’m quantizing a lot of music, because I’m composing myself, and I’m very, very limited as a musician. The song is on YouTube; it’s called “ Bill’s a farmer! He’s the true eccentric of the band. The most beautiful, intelligent, really grounded person. He just got tired of travelling. He wanted to make music, but he didn’t want to do all the stuff around it.Yeah! He’s in Athens. I go there quite frequently, to visit my family, and I keep a home there that I bought when I was twenty-five. I love being there. I call it my Hamptons.
Everything works its way into the lyric. I pulled Andy Kaufman out of nowhere. That was 1992 or 1993. He had been forgotten. And my friend Mark Williams brought a VHS tape to the studio, and we watched some old Andy Kaufman stuff. Him just being a beautiful, impossible freak, insanely funny, like he was, and it worked its way into my head. And he became my really weird everyman in that song. I don’t know why.
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