Michael Stipe
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
The First Time Something Big Happened
The first big thing was when i walked on stage for the first time ember. Thatwas very, very different from 19 82. And half the time, again, i was o my trance when i performed so half the time i was kind of not really there. But i would go into really a trance state when i performed. It kept me from becoming terribly self conscious. I embrace that pretension. If you think of it as a way to rise out of yourself and to allow yourself to become something bigger than what you are then, wow, i'm pretentious. A look where it placed me. I i'm oke with that.
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