Band Quote by 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 compared to…

— 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 with the…

— 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 rock music…

— 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 you have…

— 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 cholera in…

— Win Butler