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. Win Butler Read Quote
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. Win Butler Read Quote
It seems like the record industry made so much crazy money in the 1960s that everyone wanted to get in on it. Now it’s just become very corporate. So all of these people who despise music end up being in charge. Win Butler Read Quote
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. Win Butler Read Quote
We’re exposed to ideas everywhere. The world is full of ideas. I think that television is a pretty powerful medium in that regard. Win Butler Read Quote
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. Win Butler Read Quote
