Win Butler Inspirational Quotes (31)

I don't think the emotional quality is the defining quality of the music but it's definitely something that people have picked up on a lot

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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