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" 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. "

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Hold

Stories

" I wouldn't want to do a solo project. "

" 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. "

" The film world feels like a smaller world than music. "

Lauren Mayberry

World

Than

" I spent a lot of time reading 'Cosmopolitan' and quietly crying. "

" I'm not in the business of telling people 'DIY or die,' but I do think it's important to be as hands-on with what you're doing as possible. "

" The depressing reality is that campaigns like the Everyday Sexism Project would not need to exist were casual sexism not so startlingly commonplace. "

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

" Objectification, whatever its form, is not something anyone should have to 'just deal with.' "

" The music industry isn't unionised in the same way Hollywood is. If I've got a problem, who do I go to? "

" I think about politics, so it would be inauthentic not to talk about it. "

" 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. "

Lauren Mayberry

First

Singer

" 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. "

" I've been into short stories ever since I read an Angela Carter collection when I was a teenager. "

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

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

Lauren Mayberry

Internet

I Am

" I think, in reading a few sentences of text, you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers but in lyricists as well. "

" You can't believe everything you read in a newspaper or everything that's coming out of the president's mouth. And you can't believe when someone posts a picture from their personal life, because most of the time, it's staged - we're showing each other these idealized versions of ourselves so that we seem better and other people will feel worse. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" There's a difference between criticism and hatred. "

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

" We're a band that's never been okay with the status quo. In a way, it's allowed us to be more open and confrontational in our music. "

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

" Some of the most powerful female performers I've seen balance the feminine and the masculine and are incredibly strong. Like, I think Hayley Williams is one of the best rock performers. "

" I went to an island in the Bahamas full of iguanas. You don't live on the island, obviously, because it's solely populated by iguanas, and it's not allowed. "

" Somebody said to me once that Chvrches was an emo band in disguise, but nobody had figured it out yet, and I thought, 'You're not wrong!' "