Win Butler Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“The music in Haiti is all tied up in voodoo and African rhythm, and so there's this funny thing: go to a voodoo ceremony, and then go to a Catholic church and tell me which music you liked better, to which one the music is more integral.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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 cliched rock life never seemed that cool to me.”

“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'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.”

“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.”

“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.”