Quotes from Win Butler

I don't like to talk about other bands in interviews.

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.

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.

I'm not someone who can dance to a song I don't like.

I never really felt super-Texan. It wasn't like I was unhappy, but I wasn't superhappy.

When I was living in Boston, I worked in this store that played the college radio station. I had to listen to it all day, and I didn't care for most of it.

My parents live near the ocean, and I've spent a lot of time walking through the water at night, being around the water.

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

Our music may sound big emotionally, but that's more to do with the playing, the level of musicianship and the full-on energy. Often, the lyrics are often quite small and focused.

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

I studied the Bible and philosophy in college, and I think in a certain sense that's the kind of stuff that still makes my brain work.

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.