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
dreams people save
People say that your dreams are the only thing that save ya,
hard people
I feel like I'm kind of a bit of a sponge in a way. Like, if people around me are going through things, I find it very hard not to be empathetic.
left nowhere people stuck
A lot of people get really stuck in this idea that everything's been done and there's nowhere left to go.
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.
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.
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.
emotional thinking people
I don't think the emotional quality is the defining quality of the music but it's definitely something that people have picked up on a lot
people missing community
What I miss [about church] is being forced to be in community with people that aren't the same as me.
benefits haiti health work
The work that Partners in Health do in Haiti benefits the whole world.
al beatles bring couple funny good hard humor maybe music rock songs weird
Funny songs aren't usually that good. Like Weird Al and maybe a couple of Beatles songs, but it's kind of hard to bring humor into rock music in an interesting way.
church dad exposed family grew mom religious side somewhat
I grew up in a somewhat religious family. My dad's family isn't religious at all, but my mom's side of the family is, so I was exposed to church a bit.
audience aware bands connect engage fed ignoring music playing posture rock terms trying
I was really sick of bands just ignoring the audience as a posture in rock music. And I think we fed off each other in terms of trying to engage the audience, not in a hammy way, but actually trying to be aware of the space that you are playing in and trying to connect in some way through the music.
arcade bunch burned growing
When I was growing up, someone told me a story about an arcade that burned down and killed a bunch of kids,
again bit break christmas june longest time took toured
We've only toured in one-month chunks, ... We started in November, then we took Christmas off, then we started again in January, and we took some time in February. And then we did a little bit in March, and then we had a bit of time off this summer. The longest break we had, the first time we went home, was for June and July, and then we went back out again in August, and we'll be done at the end of October.