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

Lauren Mayberry

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" 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. "

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" I don't want to write the same song over and over again. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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