Mike Mills Quotes

United States, Multi-Instrumentalist
December 17, 1958

Michael Edward Mills (born December 17, 1958) is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, and composer who was a founding member of the alternative rock band R.E.M. Though known primarily as a bass guitarist, backing vocalist, and pianist, his musical repertoire also includes keyboards, guitar, and percussion instruments. He contributed to a majority of the band's musical compositions.

Also known as Singer, Composer

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

Mike Mills
- History
- Ideas
- Objects
I definitely believe in the energy of the set and the energy of the actor, way more than your written word.

Mike Mills
- Believe
- Energy
- Actor

I'm into people's emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That's my turf.

Mike Mills
Being a good Hans Haacke student, part of his influence on me is that there's no difference between a gallery show and a film - or even an ad and a T-shirt-in terms of cultural legitimacy. They're just different contexts in which to have some sort of communication.

Mike Mills
We never did things as we were supposed to do. That was part of our ethic. We did what felt right to us, not what someone told us we should do.

Mike Mills
- Should
- Ethics
- Felt
I guess I watch movies to make myself happier a lot.

Mike Mills
- Movies
- Watch
- Happier
There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good.

Mike Mills
- Grief
- Drunkenness
The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.

Mike Mills

Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

Mike Mills
I pretty much believe that a film is a film and when an audience watches a film, they finish it.

Mike Mills
- Believe
- Film
- Audience
My graffiti really comes more from a May '68, sort of Situationist vibe than the hip-hop world. I think a real graffiti artist would find me a poser.

Mike Mills
- World
- Real
- Artist
I was so happy with my bow ties from the last kickstarted project that I'm back for more.

Mike Mills
- Happy
- Project
- Ties