Lauren Mayberry Quotes

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.

Lauren Mayberry Chvrches

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• 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.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • People
  • Up
  • Women

• 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 Chvrches
  • Music
  • Door
  • Feminist

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

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Band

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

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Life

• We're in entertainment. We're supposed to be making music that communicates with people, but ultimately, it's supposed to be something that people can enjoy. Sometimes you just want to escape for an hour and a half.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • People
  • Music

• 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 Chvrches
  • People
  • Silence
  • Trolls

• 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.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Faith

• 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.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • World
  • She
  • Nice

• 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.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Women
  • Done
  • Girl

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

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Music
  • Different

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

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Heart
  • Beautiful
  • Lyrics

• 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.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Mind
  • Guy

• 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.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Job
  • Pretty
  • Band

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

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Important

• 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.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• 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.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • People
  • Awesome
  • Feminist

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

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Up

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

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Teenager

• 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.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Baby
  • Sun
  • Lyrics

• 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.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Work
  • Weird

• After the first album, I spent a lot of time being like, 'I'm not really a singer.' That kind of mentality doesn't help.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Time
  • Help

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

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Pretty
  • Equality
  • Feminist

• 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.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Stop

• 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?

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Trying