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" No one has a better idea of what Chvrches is than we do. "
Lauren Mayberry
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" Just because I get to coast around in a nice, cushy little bubble, that's not how it is for everybody. "
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" Cacie Dalager's voice is beautiful, and her lyrics break my heart. "
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" I've been into short stories ever since I read an Angela Carter collection when I was a teenager. "
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" I spent a lot of time reading 'Cosmopolitan' and quietly crying. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" I don't want to write the same song over and over again. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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!' "
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" 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. "
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" My band persona is 25% tougher than I am. "
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" If you give me half an hour on the Internet, I can hate myself completely by the end of that 30 minutes. "
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" I am in a band that was born on the Internet. "
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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.' "
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" The music industry isn't unionised in the same way Hollywood is. If I've got a problem, who do I go to? "
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" Sometimes if you don't take the easy option, it'll pay dividends in the long run. "
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" I discovered the idea of feminism when I watched the film '10 Things I Hate About You.' It's a classic. "
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" I guess I have a weird habit of writing body part metaphors. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't buy into this idea that pop has to be frivolous or vacuous, and we've never subscribed to that. "
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" 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. "
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" I think that everybody likes different kinds of music, and that's absolutely fine. "
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" I've always worked in cinemas or cafes to make money because it turns out freelance journalism is quite hard to get into. "
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" The film world feels like a smaller world than music. "
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" Every conversation we have as a band is about gender in some way, and it's been like that from the beginning. "
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" Making sure that we interact with the fanbase in a way that feels right to us has been really important. "
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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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" When people say stuff to us casually in reviews, if they write about it in a condescending way with really gendered language, that's not really about me. It used to hurt my feelings more than it does now. That's not about us as a band or me as a person. That's about how you feel about women, and that's a societal thing. "
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