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" I don't want to sound negative here, but I don't know any lady that was surprised by #MeToo. "
Lauren Mayberry
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" 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. "
Lauren Mayberry
Religion
Caring
Community
" Objectification, whatever its form, is not something anyone should have to 'just deal with.' "
Lauren Mayberry
Something
Deal
Just
" Margaret Thatcher was a lady. I suppose she was a woman in a man's world, but that's about the only nice thing I have to say. "
Lauren Mayberry
Lady
Man
Nice
" When I'm writing, it's because I'm trying to figure something out for myself. If I don't believe in what I've written, then how can I expect anyone else to believe in that, either? "
Lauren Mayberry
Expect
Trying
Myself
" To me, it is not necessarily you responding that trolls want: they want to scare, they want to intimidate, and they want to silence people - so ignoring it doesn't make a difference. "
Lauren Mayberry
Silence
People
Me
" I worked in a lot of cinemas when I was at college, and I'm a movie dork, and it's a nice thing to do while you're on tour. Everything is different a lot of the time - you're never in the same place - but I like going to the cinema because it feels like no matter where you are, the experience is really the same. "
Lauren Mayberry
Experience
College
Time
" I speak a little bit of French and German, but apparently, I'm really bad at Dutch. The pronunciations are quite hard. I tried to say 'hello' in Dutch, and it did not work. People were just like, 'What?' "
Lauren Mayberry
Say
Bad
Work
" Is the casual objectification of women so commonplace that we should all just suck it up, roll over, and accept defeat? I hope not. "
Lauren Mayberry
Women
Hope
Casual
" Makeup and clothing and all that should be a fun way to be creative and express yourself. Just like in nature, where birds have all the colors. But instead, it's all focused on the aesthetics of being attractive to men. Even if you really don't think it is that, that's what we're doing. "
Lauren Mayberry
Colors
Nature
Yourself
" My band persona is 25% tougher than I am. "
Lauren Mayberry
I Am
Band
Tougher
" We come from a more alternative rock band background, and it's interesting to see the things that people think we should or shouldn't do since our music is a little bit poppier. "
Lauren Mayberry
Interesting
Think
Rock
" I think looking at the front row of a Chvrches show is really diverse. It could be 50-year-old dudes who love Depeche Mode or teenagers or teenage girls and their dad. "
Lauren Mayberry
Looking
Love
Show
" I think that everybody likes different kinds of music, and that's absolutely fine. "
Lauren Mayberry
Different
Fine
Think
" Seeing people communicate about the band online has been amazing, but I think a lot of people spend a lot of time talking about what they hate rather than what they love. I don't want to get trapped in that. "
Lauren Mayberry
Time
People
Amazing
" I'll scroll through Instagram, but I have to take Internet breaks. "
Lauren Mayberry
Take
Instagram
Internet
" There will never be a job that I do in this industry where I don't have to talk about being a woman. I will always be a female artist. People will put that in front whether you like it or not. "
Lauren Mayberry
Artist
Job
Talk
" There are so many problems with feminism, as women spend a lot of time telling other women what to do, and that distracts from the actual problem. "
Lauren Mayberry
Problem
Problems
Women
" Just because I front the band or we play bigger stages now, it doesn't mean we somehow suddenly changed the way we approach things. We all still view what we do as indie and alternative in terms of how we execute it, even if the actual music we make is more pop than our previous projects. "
Lauren Mayberry
Music
Just Because
Band
" I am in a band that was born on the Internet. "
Lauren Mayberry
Am
Internet
I Am
" Nobody is strong 100 percent of the time or falling apart 100 percent of the time; sometimes you're doing both at once. "
Lauren Mayberry
Once
Strong
Time
" I'm conscious of what bands we tour with and what companies I want to be associated with, even in the small things: if I'm going to buy stage makeup, I want to get it from companies run by women. Those are little changes that will make a difference. "
Lauren Mayberry
Women
Run
Small
" It only takes two seconds of your life to say, 'I don't agree with white supremacy. I don't agree with homophobia.' "
Lauren Mayberry
White
Life
Agree
" It's nice to squash people's expectations. "
Lauren Mayberry
Squash
Expectations
People
" I've always worked in cinemas or cafes to make money because it turns out freelance journalism is quite hard to get into. "
Lauren Mayberry
Always
Hard
Journalism
" 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. "
Lauren Mayberry
Looking
Weird
Smoke
" I guess, at the end of the day, I want to be viewed as a musician. "
Lauren Mayberry
Want
End
End Of The Day
" 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. "
Lauren Mayberry
Why
Face
Feel
" If you give me half an hour on the Internet, I can hate myself completely by the end of that 30 minutes. "
Lauren Mayberry
End
Internet
You
" The bands that we've found we have something in common with are bands like The National or Tegan And Sara, and I feel like that's because all three of us come from more alternative rock backgrounds. "
Lauren Mayberry
Rock
Three
Us
" We were quickly labeled as an outspoken feminist band, which I'm totally fine with. "
Lauren Mayberry
Which
Feminist
Outspoken