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. Lauren Mayberry Read Quote
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 have any substance to it. People can see through that really quickly. Lauren Mayberry Read Quote
Somebody said to me once that Chvrches was an emo band in disguise, but nobody had figured it out yet, and I thought, ‘You’re not wrong!’ Lauren Mayberry Read Quote
If Radiohead made a video where Thom Yorke was featured more than the other members, nobody would say anything. Lauren Mayberry Read Quote
Some musicians don’t have strong opinions, or they deliberately don’t have strong opinions because they want to try and sell as many records as possible. Lauren Mayberry Read Quote
When people say, ‘Stay in your lane; you’re a musician, so you should only talk about music,’ what do you think songs are written about? I connect with music because what somebody has said has resonated with me in one way or another. Lauren Mayberry Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I discovered the idea of feminism when I watched the film ’10 Things I Hate About You.’ It’s a classic. Lauren Mayberry Read Quote
Just because I get to coast around in a nice, cushy little bubble, that’s not how it is for everybody. Lauren Mayberry Read Quote
When people say stuff to us casually in reviews, if they write about it in a condescending way with really gendered language, that’s not really about me. It used to hurt my feelings more than it does now. That’s not about us as a band or me as a person. That’s about how you feel about women, and that’s a societal thing. Lauren Mayberry Read Quote
