There are so many bands that I'm kind of aware of through media about them, and it ends up filtering my experience… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
I'm not practising, I don't go to church, but what I got from it was a sense of belonging to something bigger.… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm kind of a bit of a sponge in a way. Like, if people around me are going through… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
I was really sick of bands just ignoring the audience as a posture in rock music. And I think we fed off… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
I found out a lot of stuff through MTV, and I didn't even have cable, I just saw it at friends' houses.… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
My parents live near the ocean, and I've spent a lot of time walking through the water at night, being around the… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
I think there's some pretty amazing language in the Bible. The thing that's always been interesting to me about religion is that compared to… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
Usually, I think you have most of your musical influences locked down by the time you're 16. — Win Butler Copy Share Image
I find myself a lot more open to bands if I just hear their song. It gives you an opportunity to engage with the… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
Whenever you do anything or say anything, you're opening yourself up to criticism. But that's okay. — Win Butler Copy Share Image
What I miss [about church] is being forced to be in community with people that aren't the same as me. — Win Butler Copy Share Image
I think of hip hop as a mass media, radio, MTV thing. It’s been extremely relevant over the last 10 years and rock music… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
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… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals. — Win Butler Copy Share Image
Once I got to know what's been happening historically, it's pretty impossible to un-know it. Like right now, there's the outbreak of cholera in… — Win Butler Copy Share Image