HomoQuotable - Michael Stipe

"Most of the time that I was a pop star I loved it. But in this period leading up to 1985 I had this complete nervous breakdown, and nobody recognized it. The guys just thought I was being impossible. Depression wasn’t something that people really talked about back then. Until I was finally able to get an anonymous H.I.V. test in ’87, there was a sense of dread and paranoia every time I got a cold." - Michael Stipe, speaking to the New York Times.