Arcade Fire 'don't feel competitive'

Win Butler has claimed that he does not care about making Arcade Fire the biggest band in the world.

The singer told The Guardian that he sometimes sympathised with Nirvana, who appeared to struggle with the fame they attracted with their second album Nevermind.

Butler said: "There's definitely three songs on [Nirvana's 1993 follow-up] In Utero that are like, 'Hey jocks! Stop listening to our music! Go away!'"

He continued: "I don't know if it's a British thing, the biggest-band-in-the-world competition. It's something that wasn't ingrained in any of us. I don't have a 'We're going to do this and be No.1' attitude."

His bandmate Régine Chassagne joked: "New and improved! 33% more strings!"

Butler then quipped: "It's really a lot easier to get smaller. That's definitely not hard."