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" 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?' "

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" There were times in my early 20s where I dealt with some anxiety and depression issues. At that time, it just feels like you're under the water, and you can't get out. "

" People say Taylor Swift's not feminist enough or Beyonce's not feminist enough, but there are 12-year-old girls going to their shows and taking an awesome message. "

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

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

" I would rather write something that's authentic to me than something that'll be likely to get played on the radio but doesn't have any substance to it. People can see through that really quickly. "

" Just because I get to coast around in a nice, cushy little bubble, that's not how it is for everybody. "

" 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. "

" No one has a better idea of what Chvrches is than we do. "

" People have said it's hypocritical for me to call myself a feminist and make the kind of music we are making, because we signed to a major in the U.K., and that system objectifies women. Or people have complained that I don't dance. But I like the idea that I can stomp around the stage if I want. "

" 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. "

" I think that everybody likes different kinds of music, and that's absolutely fine. "

" It's nice to squash people's expectations. "

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

" Some musicians don't have strong opinions, or they deliberately don't have strong opinions because they want to try and sell as many records as possible. "

" 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. "

Lauren Mayberry

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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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I like the idea of a record being more than one thing emotionally - human beings go through so many emotions in one day - and I like those things sitting next to each other. "

" I never want to be the woman that's telling other women what to do. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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