Top 131 Quotes & Sayings by Lauren Mayberry

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.

The depressing reality is that campaigns like the Everyday Sexism Project would not need to exist were casual sexism not so startlingly commonplace.

There were times in my early 20s where I dealt with some anxiety and depression issues. At that time, it just feels like you're under the water, and you can't get out.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 don't want to sound negative here, but I don't know any lady that was surprised by #MeToo.

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.

Obviously, when you're working at things, you all hope that people will relate to it.

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I've always worked in cinemas or cafes to make money because it turns out freelance journalism is quite hard to get into.

The film world feels like a smaller world than music.

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?'

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.

It only takes two seconds of your life to say, 'I don't agree with white supremacy. I don't agree with homophobia.'

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Is the casual objectification of women so commonplace that we should all just suck it up, roll over, and accept defeat? I hope not.

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.

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 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.

My band persona is 25% tougher than I am.

Japan has always been a really special place for Chvrches.

We've done a couple of women's mags, but we tend to talk about feminism and women in the industry, which I feel more comfortable talking about. It's a more valuable discussion than, 'Oh, you're a girl in a band. What hair conditioner do you use?' I use hair conditioner, and I like talking about it. But I don't want that to be the question.

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

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

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 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.

Sometimes if you don't take the easy option, it'll pay dividends in the long run.

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.

I spent a lot of time reading 'Cosmopolitan' and quietly crying.

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

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