Mm. Nice Michael Stipe interview transcript from CNN on Murmurs… I particularly like this bit:

I was looking for someone to start a band with, and Peter was the only person in Athens that would talk to me. I mean, I was very, very shy. He worked in a record store. He sat there all day with this kind of sneer on his face, kind of strumming on a guitar, and we struck up a conversation, and at one point talked about starting a band. I called him Richard for the first three months that we knew each other, and he never once corrected me. He never said “my name is not Richard, it’s Peter.”