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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. "

Lauren Mayberry

Life

Believe

" 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. "

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

" A relationship can be deeply damaging without anyone leaving marks on you. So many people - especially young women - end up trying to maintain those emotionally abusive relationships because we don't think it's that bad and that we are really some of the lucky ones because we haven't experienced 'real' abuse. "

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

" 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. "

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

" When I'm writing, it's because I'm trying to figure something out for myself. If I don't believe in what I've written, then how can I expect anyone else to believe in that, either? "

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

" 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

Time

Never

" Making sure that we interact with the fanbase in a way that feels right to us has been really important. "

Lauren Mayberry

Way

Been

" We were quickly labeled as an outspoken feminist band, which I'm totally fine with. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Lauren Mayberry

Being

" Some musicians don't have strong opinions, or they deliberately don't have strong opinions because they want to try and sell as many records as possible. "

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

" People say Taylor Swift's not feminist enough or Beyonce's not feminist enough, but there are 12-year-old girls going to their shows and taking an awesome message. "

" People have said it's hypocritical for me to call myself a feminist and make the kind of music we are making, because we signed to a major in the U.K., and that system objectifies women. Or people have complained that I don't dance. But I like the idea that I can stomp around the stage if I want. "

" 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 went to an island in the Bahamas full of iguanas. You don't live on the island, obviously, because it's solely populated by iguanas, and it's not allowed. "

" Crushes start out as that teenage phenomenon, life-affirming and cute, but as you wander into adulthood, they seem to end up more painful, harrowing, and uncertain, especially if you have just come out of the relationship you thought would finally, maybe, maybe be the one that stuck. "

" Pretty much everybody we know in Glasgow who's in a band has another job. All of us have worked in bars, cafes, or cinemas. It means you can afford to do the thing you love. "

" Margaret Thatcher was a lady. I suppose she was a woman in a man's world, but that's about the only nice thing I have to say. "

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

" Ultimately, what we're striving for is people being allowed to do what they want and not feeling they should or shouldn't do certain things. "

" We were overwhelmed by how much the first album connected with people, but I wouldn't put us in the 'pop star' realm. "

" 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. "

" We come from a more alternative rock band background, and it's interesting to see the things that people think we should or shouldn't do since our music is a little bit poppier. "

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