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" 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

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" Moving from a first to a second album is an incredibly transitional time for any band because you never get to make one in a vacuum like you did with your debut. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" We're in entertainment. We're supposed to be making music that communicates with people, but ultimately, it's supposed to be something that people can enjoy. Sometimes you just want to escape for an hour and a half. "

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" 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. "

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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. "

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" 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

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

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

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

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

" 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

" 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

" 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

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

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

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

Lauren Mayberry

" We went from playing small clubs to quite big stages quite quickly, and a lot of the time, I felt like I was trying to catch up with myself. Figuring out how to take up space was an interesting journey. "

Lauren Mayberry

" I operate a pretty strict muting and blocking policy on Twitter. "

Lauren Mayberry

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

Lauren Mayberry

" 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

" My band persona is 25% tougher than I am. "

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

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" 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. "

Lauren Mayberry

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

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. "

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" 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

" 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. "

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