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I wouldn't want to do a solo project.
My band persona is 25% tougher than I am.
It's nice to squash people's expectations.
There's a difference between criticism and hatred.
The film world feels like a smaller world than music.
Japan has always been a really special place for Chvrches.
I'm abstaining from romance and the discussion of romance.
I guess I have a weird habit of writing body part metaphors.
I spent a lot of time reading 'Cosmopolitan' and quietly crying.
I operate a pretty strict muting and blocking policy on Twitter.
Life's too short to be shoehorned into a box that isn't for you.
Nothing gets my hackles up like being told I can't do something.
I guess, at the end of the day, I want to be viewed as a musician.
I'll scroll through Instagram, but I have to take Internet breaks.
I love the hamster but I think if I took him on tour he might die.
I don't know Justin Bieber so I wouldn't want to marry a man I don't know.
I don't have a lot of time for things that are deliberately, achingly cool.
I have a personal Twitter for band purposes, but I don't use social media a lot.
Sometimes if you don't take the easy option, it'll pay dividends in the long run.
I think that everybody likes different kinds of music, and that's absolutely fine.
We were quickly labeled as an outspoken feminist band, which I'm totally fine with.
Objectification, whatever its form, is not something anyone should have to 'just deal with.'
I don't want to sound negative here, but I don't know any lady that was surprised by #MeToo.
I've been into short stories ever since I read an Angela Carter collection when I was a teenager.
I try not to say exactly what songs are about sometimes, because I feel like it ruins it for people.
Just because I get to coast around in a nice, cushy little bubble, that's not how it is for everybody.
I discovered the idea of feminism when I watched the film '10 Things I Hate About You.' It's a classic.
I don't buy into this idea that pop has to be frivolous or vacuous, and we've never subscribed to that.
The music industry isn't unionised in the same way Hollywood is. If I've got a problem, who do I go to?
Internet has been really amazing, and I think it's a place of great passion, creativity, and knowledge.
Making sure that we interact with the fanbase in a way that feels right to us has been really important.
If you give me half an hour on the Internet, I can hate myself completely by the end of that 30 minutes.
If Radiohead made a video where Thom Yorke was featured more than the other members, nobody would say anything.
It only takes two seconds of your life to say, 'I don't agree with white supremacy. I don't agree with homophobia.'
I think in reading a few sentences of text you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers.
We were overwhelmed by how much the first album connected with people, but I wouldn't put us in the 'pop star' realm.
Anne Carson and Angela Carter are folks I hold close to my heart because they have such unique ways of telling stories.
Nobody is strong 100 percent of the time or falling apart 100 percent of the time; sometimes you're doing both at once.
After the first album, I spent a lot of time being like, 'I'm not really a singer.' That kind of mentality doesn't help.
Nobody is strong 100 percent of the time, or falling apart 100 percent of the time; sometimes you're doing both at once.
I've always worked in cinemas or cafes to make money because it turns out freelance journalism is quite hard to get into.
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.
Is the casual objectification of women so commonplace that we should all just suck it up, roll over, and accept defeat? I hope not.
We're a band that's never been okay with the status quo. In a way, it's allowed us to be more open and confrontational in our music.
My dissertation was on the idea of feminine-themed women's magazines, so like how the ideal woman is put across by women's magazines.
I identify as a feminist but subscribe to the pretty basic definition of a feminist as 'someone who seeks equality between the sexes.'
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 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.
I've come to terms with the fact that standing and screaming in someone's face about how wrong they are is never gonna make anyone change.
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.