Quotes from Lauren Mayberry

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!'

I have a personal Twitter for band purposes, but I don't use social media a lot.

I don't buy into this idea that pop has to be frivolous or vacuous, and we've never subscribed to that.

Some of the most powerful female performers I've seen balance the feminine and the masculine and are incredibly strong. Like, I think Hayley Williams is one of the best rock performers.

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.

If Radiohead made a video where Thom Yorke was featured more than the other members, nobody would say anything.

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.

Every conversation we have as a band is about gender in some way, and it's been like that from the beginning.

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.

Nobody is strong 100 percent of the time, or falling apart 100 percent of the time; sometimes you're doing both at once.

We were overwhelmed by how much the first album connected with people, but I wouldn't put us in the 'pop star' realm.

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.

There's a difference between criticism and hatred.

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 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?'

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 spent a lot of time reading 'Cosmopolitan' and quietly crying.

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.

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.

My band persona is 25% tougher than I am.

I think in reading a few sentences of text you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers.

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.

I'll scroll through Instagram, but I have to take Internet breaks.

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