I think in reading a few sentences of text you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose… — Lauren Mayberry Prose Copy Share Image
Anne Carson and Angela Carter are folks I hold close to my heart because they have such unique ways of telling stories. — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
Somebody said to me once that Chvrches was an emo band in disguise, but nobody had figured it out yet, and I… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
Is the casual objectification of women so commonplace that we should all just suck it up, roll over, and accept defeat? I… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
If you give me half an hour on the Internet, I can hate myself completely by the end of that 30 minutes. — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
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… — Lauren Mayberry Business Copy Share Image
Every conversation we have as a band is about gender in some way, and it's been like that from the beginning. — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
Sometimes if you don't take the easy option, it'll pay dividends in the long run. — Lauren Mayberry Dividends Copy Share Image
Moving from a first to a second album is an incredibly transitional time for any band because you never get to make… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
Some musicians don't have strong opinions, or they deliberately don't have strong opinions because they want to try and sell as many… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
Seeing people communicate about the band online has been amazing, but I think a lot of people spend a lot of time… — Lauren Mayberry Amazing Copy Share Image
It was always very important for us that we presented ourselves as a band, because it's a three-part writing process and it's… — Lauren Mayberry Assumption Copy Share Image
If people are really hateful and disgusting in the way they treat other people, that probably came from a hurt place -… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
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… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
No matter how many people try, no matter how many fancy songwriters in Los Angeles try to break it down to a… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
There were times in my early 20s where I dealt with some anxiety and depression issues. At that time, it just feels… — Lauren Mayberry Anxiety Copy Share Image
Nobody is strong 100 percent of the time or falling apart 100 percent of the time; sometimes you're doing both at once. — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
After the first album, I spent a lot of time being like, 'I'm not really a singer.' That kind of mentality doesn't… — Lauren Mayberry Being Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people spend a lot of time talking about what they hate rather than what they love. I… — Lauren Mayberry Hate Copy Share Image
I try not to say exactly what songs are about sometimes, because I feel like it ruins it for people. — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
I'm conscious of what bands we tour with and what companies I want to be associated with, even in the small things:… — Lauren Mayberry Make a difference Copy Share Image
Even in the early stages, you can tell who thinks you're an idiot singing songs someone else has written for you. We… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
For us, the stuff we know is writing songs, playing shows, and that's what we're trying to concentrate on. Not trying to… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
One guy came to a show and was like, 'You're going to be huge. I can see it in my mind's eye.… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
If you were 12, and Beyonce was up onstage saying to you, 'You get to do exactly whatever you want to do,'… — Lauren Mayberry Awesome Copy Share Image
I get this weird, existential crisis when I'm looking through Instagram - and then I'll realize we work in entertainment. We know… — Lauren Mayberry Crisis Copy Share Image
I enjoy working with people. That seems simplistic, but whenever I'm distressed, angry, and want to feel like something can be done… — Lauren Mayberry Angry Copy Share Image
I think looking at the front row of a Chvrches show is really diverse. It could be 50-year-old dudes who love Depeche… — Lauren Mayberry Dad Copy Share Image
We went from playing small clubs to quite big stages quite quickly, and a lot of the time, I felt like I… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
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… — Lauren Mayberry Awesome Copy Share Image
Some of the most powerful female performers I've seen balance the feminine and the masculine and are incredibly strong. Like, I think… — Lauren Mayberry Balance Copy Share Image
Just because I front the band or we play bigger stages now, it doesn't mean we somehow suddenly changed the way we… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
I've definitely read interviews with people where they've explained exactly what they wrote something about and I've been like: "Oh no, I… — Lauren Mayberry Beautiful Copy Share Image
I like the idea of a record being more than one thing emotionally - human beings go through so many emotions in… — Lauren Mayberry Day Copy Share Image
I never wanted to write really cheesy pop lyrics - like, 'baby, baby, the sun is shining' - that's not something that… — Lauren Mayberry Lyrics Copy Share Image
I've been in bands since I was about fifteen, so there are probably quite a lot of terrible teenage songs kicking about… — Lauren Mayberry Angst Copy Share Image
I did my dissertation on the idea of femininity and women's writing, so I spent eight months reading about how women are… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
The depressing reality is that campaigns like the Everyday Sexism Project would not need to exist were casual sexism not so startlingly… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
If there's a strong melodic thing somewhere, whether that's in a vocal or in a guitar part or a sample. Something that… — Lauren Mayberry Brain Copy Share Image
To me, it is not necessarily you responding that trolls want: they want to scare, they want to intimidate, and they want… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
