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
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.
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.
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.
amazing
I think there's some pretty amazing language in the Bible.
cliched cool life seemed
The cliched rock life never seemed that cool to me.
blew english gone high itself movies revealed school teacher ways
My favorite English teacher in high school showed me 'Brazil' when I was 15, and it blew my mind. It's one of those movies that's revealed itself in different ways as I've gone back to it over the years.
culture found high influenced junior saw stuff totally
I found out a lot of stuff through MTV, and I didn't even have cable, I just saw it at friends' houses. But my culture in junior high was totally influenced by it.
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,