Win Butler

I think there's some pretty amazing language in the Bible. The thing that's always been interesting to me about religion is that…

— Win Butler

Usually, I think you have most of your musical influences locked down by the time you're 16.

— Win Butler

I find myself a lot more open to bands if I just hear their song. It gives you an opportunity to engage…

— Win Butler

Whenever you do anything or say anything, you're opening yourself up to criticism. But that's okay.

— Win Butler

What I miss [about church] is being forced to be in community with people that aren't the same as me.

— Win Butler

I think of hip hop as a mass media, radio, MTV thing. It’s been extremely relevant over the last 10 years and…

— Win Butler

A lot of artists write about the same things their whole career.

— Win Butler

I love my iPhone; it's great to have a camera around all the time.

— Win Butler

Songwriting is reliant on inspiration, which ideally you don't have that much control over. Songs kind of half make themselves, and then…

— Win Butler

Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals.

— Win Butler

I'm not someone who can dance to a song I don't like.

— Win Butler

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…

— Win Butler

I had a somewhat religious upbringing. Not strict, but it was there, and I'm kind of thankful for that. If you grow…

— Win Butler

If you think about it, if you've ever been to a Catholic service, it's practically a laser light show. It's very dramatic,…

— Win Butler

The cliched rock life never seemed that cool to me.

— Win Butler

The work that Partners in Health do in Haiti benefits the whole world.

— Win Butler

I never really felt super-Texan. It wasn't like I was unhappy, but I wasn't superhappy.

— Win Butler

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

I try not get too self-aware when writing lyrics.

— Win Butler

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

Being in a rock band, I feel a certain responsibility to have a weird haircut. I mean, who else gets to do…

— Win Butler

It would get really alienating, to have my face be the face of a cause. So much just comes down to the…

— Win Butler

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

There's this idea, particularly in pop music and a lot of these pop father/manager types, that you're selling the person instead of…

— Win Butler

The Flaming Lips have been on Warner Bros. forever, and certainly everything I heard growing up was on a major label in…

— Win Butler