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
musical time
Usually, I think you have most of your musical influences locked down by the time you're 16.
benefits haiti health work
The work that Partners in Health do in Haiti benefits the whole world.
dreams people save
People say that your dreams are the only thing that save ya,
ideas dancing house
The idea of dancing to bad house music is something I could never get behind.
writing artist careers
A lot of artists write about the same things their whole career.
writing self trying
I try not get too self-aware when writing lyrics.
fundamentals way labels
Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals.
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.
carnival films time
The film 'Black Orpheus' is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil.
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.