I think you have to want to be really famous. It's a lot easier to sabotage your career than to have a career to sabotage.
Win ButlerSongwriting 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.
Win ButlerOnce 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.
Win ButlerThe film Black Orpheus is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil.
Win Butler