Top 50 Lauren Mayberry Quotes

Even in the early stages, you can tell who thinks you’re an idiot singing songs someone else has written for you. We never wanted to be two producers and a girl who wears some shoes.

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.

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

I guess, at the end of the day, I want to be viewed as a musician.

I think about politics, so it would be inauthentic not to talk about it.

We all like to believe we are completely self-sufficient, but at the end of it all, we’re all searching for a human connection, something to make it all feel a bit more worthwhile.

The film world feels like a smaller world than music.

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’m conscious of what bands we tour with and what companies I want to be associated with, even in the small things: if I’m going to buy stage makeup, I want to get it from companies run by women. Those are little changes that will make a difference.

It’s nice to squash people’s expectations.

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

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

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

One guy came to a show and was like, ‘You’re going to be huge. I can see it in my mind’s eye. We could make you the next Pixie Lott.’ I did an internal scream and ran away.

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.

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

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.

Life’s too short to be shoehorned into a box that isn’t for you.

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 operate a pretty strict muting and blocking policy on Twitter.

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.

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.

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 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.

I’ve been into short stories ever since I read an Angela Carter collection when I was a teenager.

I’ll scroll through Instagram, but I have to take Internet breaks.

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.

When people say, ‘Stay in your lane; you’re a musician, so you should only talk about music,’ what do you think songs are written about? I connect with music because what somebody has said has resonated with me in one way or another.

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

I get this weird, existential crisis when I’m looking through Instagram – and then I’ll realize we work in entertainment. We know all the smoke and mirrors.

We should all be able to have faith that our governments are working in our best interests – and if they aren’t, then they should be challenged and held to account.

I’m not in the business of telling people ‘DIY or die,’ but I do think it’s important to be as hands-on with what you’re doing as possible.

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.

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.

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 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 never wanted to write really cheesy pop lyrics – like, ‘baby, baby, the sun is shining’ – that’s not something that interests me personally. I’m always wanting to write something that has some kind of meaning.

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.

If you give me half an hour on the Internet, I can hate myself completely by the end of that 30 minutes.

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

I wouldn’t want to do a solo project.

Just because I get to coast around in a nice, cushy little bubble, that’s not how it is for everybody.

I am in a band that was born on the Internet.

Cacie Dalager’s voice is beautiful, and her lyrics break my heart.

I guess I’m fortunate in that two things I always wanted to do, since I was 16, were play music and get into news media. I’m very lucky to have two things that can engage my brain at once.

I have a personal Twitter for band purposes, but I don’t use social media a lot.

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.

If you were 12, and Beyonce was up onstage saying to you, ‘You get to do exactly whatever you want to do,’ that would be awesome. I wish she said it to me when I was 12.

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.

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.