Michael Stipe gets inspiration for new album... using his Iphone

Michael Stipe, best known as the singer of R.E.M has been using his Iphone for something more creative than Fat Booth photos. Apparently the musician has been using the device in recording parts of the new album, Collapse Into Now

  The rocker is a big fan of his Apple gadget and used its many features to help him write and record tracks for the group's recent release.

  He tells Britain's Absolute Radio, "My notepad is my iPhone, and in fact I recorded and wrote this entire record on my phone.

  "I love technology for that, it's so much easier than having scraps of paper everywhere. Of course I write lyrics that I hope would someday see the light of day, more times than not that never happens.

  "I see things when I hear music and it's usually a landscape, and my job as the lyricist is to people that landscape with stories and with narrative and with ideas and with words."