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
fundamentals way labels
Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals.
musical time
Usually, I think you have most of your musical influences locked down by the time you're 16.
good kids
There are a lot of good kids out there. There are a lot of good teenagers. If you're good to them, they're good to you.
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.
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.
camera great love time
I love my iPhone; it's great to have a camera around all the time.
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.
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.
exposed full medium
We're exposed to ideas everywhere. The world is full of ideas. I think that television is a pretty powerful medium in that regard.
art found peer talking
The idea of peer critique, of talking about each other's art - I just found it so useless.
carnival films time
The film 'Black Orpheus' is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil.
dirt glorious good looks moustache
I'm not a good hipster - if I let my moustache grow for weeks, it just looks like I have dirt on my face. I'll never have a glorious handlebar moustache.
designed outfits
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, very theatrical. The outfits they wear, it's all designed to be impressive.
level lyrics music quite sound
Our music may sound big emotionally, but that's more to do with the playing, the level of musicianship and the full-on energy. Often, the lyrics are often quite small and focused.