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Edwin Farnham Butler III (born April 14, 1980) is an American songwriter, musician, and multi-instrumentalist of the Montreal-based indie rock band Arcade Fire. His wife Régine Chassagne and younger brother Will Butler are both members of the band.

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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.

Artist, Be True To Yourself, Music, Song, Songs, Subtle

What I miss [about church] is being forced to be in community with people that aren't the same as me.

Church, Community, Forced, Missing, People, Same

In the UK, tons of records are now sold in grocery stores, because there are no record stores - it's iTunes or the grocery store. And almost every band that had an impact on me was on a major label. There's value in people actually hearing things, as well.

Grocery, Hearing, Impact, People, Stores, Values

Whenever you do anything or say anything, you're opening yourself up to criticism. But that's okay.

Criticism, Okay, Opening, Say, Say Anything, Whenever

A lot of artists write about the same things their whole career.

Artist, Career, Careers, Things, Write, Writing

I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.

Worry, World, Caught, Rest

The Flaming Lips have been on Warner Bros. forever, and certainly everything I heard growing up was on a major label in some way, from the Cure to Radiohead to Bjork.

Bjork, Everything, Forever, Growing Up, Labels, Way

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.

Helped, Humanity, Music, People, Political

While there are so many beautiful Baroque churches and it's a beautiful artistic tradition, it almost gets hideous and grotesque if you push it further. You can take something beautiful and overdo it.

Artistic, Beautiful, Church, Gets, Grotesque, Overdo

The idea of dancing to bad house music is something I could never get behind.

Bad, Dancing, House, Idea, Ideas, Music

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.

Control, Finish, Half, Ideally, Inspiration, Song

I think when you've been in a band for a really long time, sometimes you don't appreciate what's good about yourself. It's easy to play something and get too focused on some small detail. It's helpful to have somebody around who can say, "No, that was good. " Just so you don't get too lost or forget what you do. You need somebody you really trust who has great taste.

Appreciate, Detail, Good, Long, Play, Thinking

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.

Giving, Hear, Open, Opportunity, Overwhelmed, Song

Once I got to know what's been happening historically, it's pretty impossible to un-know it. Like right now, there's the outbreak of cholera in Haiti, and people see that as a news headline, but I know there's half a billion dollars of aid that one senator is putting a hold on, that the Red Cross has raised half a billion dollars but has only spent $200 million.

Aids, Dollars, Historically, Impossible, People, Senator

Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals.

Bubble, Fundamentals, Labels, Way

I think filmmakers all secretly wanna be musicians and all musicians secretly wanna be filmmakers.

Filmmaker, Musician, Musicians, Think, Thinking, Wanna

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

Haircut, Mean, Responsibility, Rocks

I studied scriptural interpretation, which is more about how people get meaning out of texts, looking at stuff in the Old Testament - Muslims, Christians, Jews, different interpretations of the same texts.

Christian, Different, Interpretation, People, Stuff, Testament

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.

Mass, Media, Mtv, Rocks, Thinking

A lot of stuff is dark in a way, but unless you're really looking at a situation for what it actually is, it's hard to be hopeful - or meaningless to be hopeful about it unless it's actually based in a real possibility.

Dark, Hopeful, Real, Situation, Unless, Way

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