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.
— Lauren Mayberry
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.
Sometimes if you don't take the easy option, it'll pay dividends in the long run.
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.
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.
I don't want to be the front for somebody else's creativity and sell that day in, day out.
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 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.
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 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 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.
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?
Nobody is strong 100 percent of the time or falling apart 100 percent of the time; sometimes you're doing both at once.
I have a personal Twitter for band purposes, but I don't use social media a lot.
Is the casual objectification of women so commonplace that we should all just suck it up, roll over, and accept defeat? I hope not.
I am in a band that was born on the Internet.
I don't want to sound negative here, but I don't know any lady that was surprised by #MeToo.
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.
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'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 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.
My band persona is 25% tougher than I am.
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.
Japan has always been a really special place for Chvrches.
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.
Life's too short to be shoehorned into a box that isn't for you.
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?'
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.
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.
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, 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 identify as a feminist but subscribe to the pretty basic definition of a feminist as 'someone who seeks equality between the sexes.'
I think about politics, so it would be inauthentic not to talk about it.
The film world feels like a smaller world than music.
I've been into short stories ever since I read an Angela Carter collection when I was a teenager.
I guess, at the end of the day, I want to be viewed as a musician.
I spent a lot of time reading 'Cosmopolitan' and quietly crying.
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 operate a pretty strict muting and blocking policy on Twitter.
I think that everybody likes different kinds of music, and that's absolutely fine.
Obviously, when you're working at things, you all hope that people will relate to 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.
Nothing gets my hackles up like being told I can't do something.
I don't have a lot of time for things that are deliberately, achingly cool.
I've always worked in cinemas or cafes to make money because it turns out freelance journalism is quite hard to get into.
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.
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.
Anne Carson and Angela Carter are folks I hold close to my heart because they have such unique ways of telling stories.
The depressing reality is that campaigns like the Everyday Sexism Project would not need to exist were casual sexism not so startlingly commonplace.
It only takes two seconds of your life to say, 'I don't agree with white supremacy. I don't agree with homophobia.'
