Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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

Related Quotes:

" 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. "

Lauren Mayberry

" 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

" 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. "

Lauren Mayberry

" 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

" Sometimes if you don't take the easy option, it'll pay dividends in the long run. "

Lauren Mayberry

" I never wanted to write really cheesy pop lyrics - like, 'baby, baby, the sun is shining' - that's not something that interests me personally. I'm always wanting to write something that has some kind of meaning. "

Lauren Mayberry

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

Lauren Mayberry

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

Lauren Mayberry

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

Lauren Mayberry

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

Lauren Mayberry

" 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

" 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

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

Lauren Mayberry

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

Lauren Mayberry

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

Lauren Mayberry

" 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. "

Lauren Mayberry

" We all like to believe we are completely self-sufficient, but at the end of it all, we're all searching for a human connection, something to make it all feel a bit more worthwhile. "

Lauren Mayberry

" We've done a couple of women's mags, but we tend to talk about feminism and women in the industry, which I feel more comfortable talking about. It's a more valuable discussion than, 'Oh, you're a girl in a band. What hair conditioner do you use?' I use hair conditioner, and I like talking about it. But I don't want that to be the question. "

Lauren Mayberry

" I've come to terms with the fact that standing and screaming in someone's face about how wrong they are is never gonna make anyone change. "

Lauren Mayberry

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

Lauren Mayberry

" 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. "

Lauren Mayberry

" I've never been able to write narrative as a character, really. Jenny Lewis, I love her stuff, I love that she can weave these American Gothic fairytales. I feel like I sound inauthentic when I do that, so I tend to write from a personal standpoint. "

Lauren Mayberry

" 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

" 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. "

Lauren Mayberry

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

Lauren Mayberry

" 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. "

Lauren Mayberry

" 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. "

Lauren Mayberry

" 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

" Nothing gets my hackles up like being told I can't do something. "

Lauren Mayberry

" 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