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" 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. "

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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?' "

Lauren Mayberry

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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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't buy into this idea that pop has to be frivolous or vacuous, and we've never subscribed to that. "

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

" Nobody is strong 100 percent of the time or falling apart 100 percent of the time; sometimes you're doing both at once. "

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

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

" Japan has always been a really special place for Chvrches. "

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

" If we just stand at two opposite ends of the spectrum screaming in each other's face, we're never gonna get anything done. I don't agree with a Trump voter, but why do they feel like that? Yes, some of those people are racist and have hateful opinions, but some of those people voted for him because they felt completely left behind. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" To me, it is not necessarily you responding that trolls want: they want to scare, they want to intimidate, and they want to silence people - so ignoring it doesn't make a difference. "

Lauren Mayberry

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "