Arcade Fire’s Win Butler, who became a Canadian citizen last year, has expressed hope that American voters will get it right on Nov. 3.
The 40-year-old singer was born in California but spent part of his childhood in the Houston area.
“I feel really optimistic for the first time in a long time about Texas and about the future of this country,” said Butler in a conversation with former Democratic congressman Beto O’Rourke for Rolling Stone.
“Like I really genuinely… it’s not all doom and gloom. There is something happening.”
Ahead of the 2016 U.S. election, Butler called Donald Trump a “complete f**king nightmare and a clown and a joke.” In an interview with Red Bull Music Academy, he urged Americans to get out and vote. “The consequences could not be more dire,” he warned.
Butler married his Quebec-born Arcade Fire co-founder Régine Chassagne in 2003 and became a Canadian citizen last year. “I’ve lived in Montreal for half my life, so it feels very natural to have both passports now,” he wrote on social media at the time.