Win Butler Quotes

I don't have the same restrictions that other people do because I never painted myself into a corner. I've always done things that didn't necessarily fit the form. I've never felt limited in that respect in terms of songwriting.

Really interesting things come because you don't know what the rules are, what you can and can't do.

You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.

It's really fun to just stretch out and not have any boundaries or just try something for the craft.

We do things differently. You don't have to worry about being part of a particular genre. You just go for it.

Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

Not to be boxed in, to be able to transcend boundaries: for an artist, it's essential.

I'd rather play here in this small bar and just do a good show. Because it's fun and there's no expectations, it's encouragement to be different, do something new.

I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Other qualities may be more conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn - as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts and names for things.

With 'Friday Night Lights,' we were encouraged to make it our own and improvise as much as we wanted.

I'd like to shut off all the noise and allow people to be creative without all the judgments and standards that we think we have to follow.

I like to reinvent with each project, in any which way possible.

With my writing, I try to do stuff I have not done before. Each time I sit down, I want to have a new experience, and by extension, I want my readers to have a different experience.

It's something I have always tried to do in my career - play outside the box.

When you're building a show from the ground up, there are no answers or wrong move, because there's no bible.

I think we shouldn't buckle up our creativity. You've got to experiment!

Innovation actually demands freedom and freedom demands innovation.

Question everything. Don't try to emulate someone else's path. Look at what you have, the tools you have, the place you're in; know the rules, and break them.

One of the things with the second record, a word I held close to my chest was 'brave.' To take chances to go outside the box and explore. To continue to toss off any expectation that our fans or anyone else might have of us, to just tap into who I am as a writer and artist and really just operate within that freedom of creation.

Do what you want to do, and don't worry if it's a little odd or doesn't fit the market.

I would like the work to be non-work. This means that it would find its way beyond my preconceptions...It is the unknown quantity from which and where I want to go. As a thing, an object, it accedes to its non-logical self. It is something, it is nothing.

I'd rather experiment than follow the same formula. I'm a curious person. It's gotten me into trouble, but I say, 'Why not? Let's try it.'

You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then judge later. Don't cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.

You know that I'm always a proponent of doing things differently.