66 Quotes by 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 is just not anymore—-a tear rolls down my cheek as I say that.

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.

It's a lot easier to sabotage your career than to have a career to sabotage.

I love my iPhone; it's great to have a camera around all the time.

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.

Being in a rock band, I feel a certain responsibility to have a weird haircut. I mean, who else gets to do that?

A lot of people get really stuck in this idea that everything's been done and there's nowhere left to go.

We're exposed to ideas everywhere. The world is full of ideas. I think that television is a pretty powerful medium in that regard.

The idea of peer critique, of talking about each other's art - I just found it so useless.