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
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,
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.
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,
I'm not someone who can dance to a song I don't like.
teacher school years
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.
thinking musician filmmaker
I think filmmakers all secretly wanna be musicians and all musicians secretly wanna be filmmakers.
song opportunity giving
I find myself a lot more open to bands if I just hear their song. It gives you an opportunity to engage with the thing itself and not be overwhelmed by everything else that surrounds it.
song artist be-true-to-yourself
Music is made by individuals. Some artists will be very politically overt in their songs, some will be more subtle. You have to be true to yourself, true to your nature.
song inspiration half
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 to finish them.
people political humanity
When I was younger, bands helped me connect to part of my humanity; bands that had nothing to do with anything political helped to form me. There's a correlation in that: If people can connect to music, maybe they can connect to each other.
fundamentals way labels
Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals.
crazy people records
It seems like the record industry made so much crazy money in the 1960s that everyone wanted to get in on it. Now it's just become very corporate. So all of these people who despise music end up being in charge.