66 Quotes by Win Butler

Usually, I think you have most of your musical influences locked down by the time you're 16.

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.

I was really sick of bands just ignoring the audience as a posture in rock music. And I think we fed off each other in terms of trying to engage the audience, not in a hammy way, but actually trying to be aware of the space that you are playing in and trying to connect in some way through the music.

I grew up in a somewhat religious family. My dad's family isn't religious at all, but my mom's side of the family is, so I was exposed to church a bit.

Funny songs aren't usually that good. Like Weird Al and maybe a couple of Beatles songs, but it's kind of hard to bring humor into rock music in an interesting way.

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.

When I was growing up, someone told me a story about an arcade that burned down and killed a bunch of kids,

We've only toured in one-month chunks, ... We started in November, then we took Christmas off, then we started again in January, and we took some time in February. And then we did a little bit in March, and then we had a bit of time off this summer. The longest break we had, the first time we went home, was for June and July, and then we went back out again in August, and we'll be done at the end of October.

The work that Partners in Health do in Haiti benefits the whole world.