It only takes two seconds of your life to say, 'I don't agree with white supremacy. I don't agree with homophobia.' — Lauren Mayberry Homophobia Copy Share Image
I don't have a lot of time for things that are deliberately, achingly cool. — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
I discovered the idea of feminism when I watched the film '10 Things I Hate About You.' It's a classic. — Lauren Mayberry Feminism Copy Share Image
Internet has been really amazing, and I think it's a place of great passion, creativity, and knowledge. — Lauren Mayberry Creativity Copy Share Image
I identify as a feminist but subscribe to the pretty basic definition of a feminist as 'someone who seeks equality between the… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
I've come to terms with the fact that standing and screaming in someone's face about how wrong they are is never gonna… — Lauren Mayberry Change 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
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
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
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
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
We come from a more alternative rock band background, and it's interesting to see the things that people think we should or… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
I went to an island in the Bahamas full of iguanas. You don't live on the island, obviously, because it's solely populated… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
I've never been able to write narrative as a character, really. Jenny Lewis, I love her stuff, I love that she can… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
The idea was that the record itself ['The Bones Of What You Believe' ] is a kind of labour of love for… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
We should all be able to have faith that our governments are working in our best interests - and if they aren't,… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
I don't want to be the front for somebody else's creativity and sell that day in, day out. — Lauren Mayberry Creativity Copy Share Image
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
Just because I get to coast around in a nice, cushy little bubble, that's not how it is for everybody. — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
Writing with other people is the only way I ever really work. In some ways it's great because it's helpful to someone… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
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… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
I feel like I would need to investigate and get some local tips. I think if I've learned anything from being on… — Lauren Mayberry Best things Copy Share Image
I'd rather work with a grassroots organization than in politics. I'm not sure I'd be the best politician because I don't think… — Lauren Mayberry Being the best Copy Share Image
I guess I'm fortunate in that two things I always wanted to do, since I was 16, were play music and get… — Lauren Mayberry Brain Copy Share Image
First time we played in New York was in 2013. It was all very eye-opening. A very bright lights, big-city sort of… — Lauren Mayberry Big city Copy Share Image
I quite like being removed from the industry stuff so that when we're not on tour and we're writing, we're in a… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
Crushes start out as that teenage phenomenon, life-affirming and cute, but as you wander into adulthood, they seem to end up more… — Lauren Mayberry Adulthood Copy Share Image
Makeup and clothing and all that should be a fun way to be creative and express yourself. Just like in nature, where… — Lauren Mayberry Aesthetics Copy Share Image
Pretty much everybody we know in Glasgow who's in a band has another job. All of us have worked in bars, cafes,… — 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
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
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
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
I would rather write something that's authentic to me than something that'll be likely to get played on the radio but doesn't… — Lauren Mayberry Authentic Copy Share Image
We all like to believe we are completely self-sufficient, but at the end of it all, we're all searching for a human… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
I speak a little bit of French and German, but apparently, I'm really bad at Dutch. The pronunciations are quite hard. I… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
There will never be a job that I do in this industry where I don't have to talk about being a woman.… — Lauren Mayberry Art Copy Share Image
I learned drumming as a second instrument because I didn't want to sing. Sometimes I would quite like to be left in… — Lauren Mayberry Darkness 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
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