
Best of Design Matters: Michael Stipe
Design Matters with Debbie Millman
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What Is a Harbor Code?
I would pick phrases out of the air and just throw them into the songs. I use it as a way to explain what it means to spite your face, which is so much more poetic. Later when I realized that sex sells, I would strip down to my bare body and sometimes shave my chest because it looked better from a distance. And yeah, I mean, I was wearing the coat. I was literally in embodying my own lyric. I was protecting myself.
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