Win Butler
Win Butler
Edwin Farnham "Win" Butler IIIis an American lead vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter of the Montreal-based indie rock band Arcade Fire. His wife Régine Chassagne and younger brother Will Butler are both members of the band...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth14 April 1980
CityTruckee, CA
CountryUnited States of America
based communal construct form happiness religious somewhat thankful watching worldview
I had a somewhat religious upbringing. Not strict, but it was there, and I'm kind of thankful for that. If you grow up just watching MTV, that's its own form of religion, and it's not even based on happiness or communal responsibility. I mean, try to construct a worldview out of that.
camera great love time
I love my iPhone; it's great to have a camera around all the time.
It's a lot easier to sabotage your career than to have a career to sabotage.
forced miss people ways work
I'm not practising, I don't go to church, but what I got from it was a sense of belonging to something bigger. What I really miss is being forced to be in a community with people that aren't the same as you. Then, you really have to work through the ways that you're different.
actual aware bands ends experience filtering music
There are so many bands that I'm kind of aware of through media about them, and it ends up filtering my experience of the actual music.
I'm not someone who can dance to a song I don't like.
teacher school years
My favorite English teacher in high school showed me 'Brazil' when I was 15 and it blew my mind. It's one of those movies that's revealed itself in different ways as I've gone back to it over the years.
thinking musician filmmaker
I think filmmakers all secretly wanna be musicians and all musicians secretly wanna be filmmakers.
song artist be-true-to-yourself
Music is made by individuals. Some artists will be very politically overt in their songs, some will be more subtle. You have to be true to yourself, true to your nature.
song inspiration half
Songwriting is reliant on inspiration, which ideally you don't have that much control over. Songs kind of half make themselves, and then you have to finish them.
people political humanity
When I was younger, bands helped me connect to part of my humanity; bands that had nothing to do with anything political helped to form me. There's a correlation in that: If people can connect to music, maybe they can connect to each other.
fundamentals way labels
Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals.
crazy people records
It seems like the record industry made so much crazy money in the 1960s that everyone wanted to get in on it. Now it's just become very corporate. So all of these people who despise music end up being in charge.
college boston care
When I was living in Boston I worked in this store that played the college radio station. I had to listen to it all day, and I didn't care for most of it.