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" After the first album, I spent a lot of time being like, 'I'm not really a singer.' That kind of mentality doesn't help. "

" Anne Carson and Angela Carter are folks I hold close to my heart because they have such unique ways of telling stories. "

" A relationship can be deeply damaging without anyone leaving marks on you. So many people - especially young women - end up trying to maintain those emotionally abusive relationships because we don't think it's that bad and that we are really some of the lucky ones because we haven't experienced 'real' abuse. "

" Cacie Dalager's voice is beautiful, and her lyrics break my heart. "

" Crushes start out as that teenage phenomenon, life-affirming and cute, but as you wander into adulthood, they seem to end up more painful, harrowing, and uncertain, especially if you have just come out of the relationship you thought would finally, maybe, maybe be the one that stuck. "

" Even in the early stages, you can tell who thinks you're an idiot singing songs someone else has written for you. We never wanted to be two producers and a girl who wears some shoes. "

" Every conversation we have as a band is about gender in some way, and it's been like that from the beginning. "

" First time we played in New York was in 2013. It was all very eye-opening. A very bright lights, big-city sort of vibe, and we played the Mercury Lounge. "

" Growing up in Scotland and living in Glasgow, you see the heritage that religion has had and how something that, in theory, is about kindness and community and caring for each other is used to persecute people. "

" I am in a band that was born on the Internet. "

" I did my dissertation on the idea of femininity and women's writing, so I spent eight months reading about how women are portrayed in the media in terms of images and tone of voice and what words are used. "

" I discovered the idea of feminism when I watched the film '10 Things I Hate About You.' It's a classic. "

" I don't buy into this idea that pop has to be frivolous or vacuous, and we've never subscribed to that. "

" I don't have a lot of time for things that are deliberately, achingly cool. "

" I don't want to be the front for somebody else's creativity and sell that day in, day out. "

" I don't want to sound negative here, but I don't know any lady that was surprised by #MeToo. "

" I don't want to write the same song over and over again. "

" I find it quite boring when you're listening to radio, and it's the same kind of voice that's on every song on the radio. You can't really tell a lot about that singer as a storyteller and about the singer from what they're singing. "

" If people are really hateful and disgusting in the way they treat other people, that probably came from a hurt place - but then, when does it stop? When does this spiral end? Sometimes you can get pretty melancholic about that. "

" If Radiohead made a video where Thom Yorke was featured more than the other members, nobody would say anything. "

" If we just stand at two opposite ends of the spectrum screaming in each other's face, we're never gonna get anything done. I don't agree with a Trump voter, but why do they feel like that? Yes, some of those people are racist and have hateful opinions, but some of those people voted for him because they felt completely left behind. "

" If you give me half an hour on the Internet, I can hate myself completely by the end of that 30 minutes. "

" If you were 12, and Beyonce was up onstage saying to you, 'You get to do exactly whatever you want to do,' that would be awesome. I wish she said it to me when I was 12. "

" I get this weird, existential crisis when I'm looking through Instagram - and then I'll realize we work in entertainment. We know all the smoke and mirrors. "

" I guess, at the end of the day, I want to be viewed as a musician. "

" I guess I have a weird habit of writing body part metaphors. "

" I guess I'm fortunate in that two things I always wanted to do, since I was 16, were play music and get into news media. I'm very lucky to have two things that can engage my brain at once. "

" I had somebody say to me once, 'You can't make the kind of music you're making and call yourself a feminist.' The door was slammed on them swiftly after that. "

" I have a personal Twitter for band purposes, but I don't use social media a lot. "

" I identify as a feminist but subscribe to the pretty basic definition of a feminist as 'someone who seeks equality between the sexes.' "

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