Lauren Mayberry Quotes

#1. No matter how many people try, no matter how many fancy songwriters in Los Angeles try to break it down to a formula ... to an extent, there isn't a science to writing great songs, I suppose.

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#2. I love the hamster but I think if I took him on tour he might die.

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#3. Life's too short to be shoehorned into a box that isn't for you.

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#4. I learned drumming as a second instrument because I didn't want to sing. Sometimes I would quite like to be left in the back, in the darkness by myself.

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#5. I've definitely read interviews with people where they've explained exactly what they wrote something about and I've been like: "Oh no, I was thinking that was a really beautiful love song or a really sad thing."

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#6. 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.

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#7. If there's a strong melodic thing somewhere, whether that's in a vocal or in a guitar part or a sample. Something that sticks in your brain, that seems to be something that works.

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#8. A good song to one person could just be something mediocre to somebody else. It's always strange thinking about how songs connect with people.

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#9. Nothing gets my hackles up like being told I can't do something.

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#10. It was always very important for us that we presented ourselves as a band, because it's a three-part writing process and it's a three-part decision making process, it's not two producer guys and a girl that sings the songs. It's startling how many people make that assumption.

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#11. 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 small room and you can't get out physically. I like that mental checking-out aspect - I think it's quite nice.

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#12. I try not to say exactly what songs are about sometimes, because I feel like it ruins it for people.

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#13. Internet has been really amazing, and I think it's a place of great passion, creativity, and knowledge.

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#14. The idea was that the record itself ['The Bones Of What You Believe' ] is a kind of labour of love for us - all our energy and all our passion and all the stuff we believed in is in that record, so you're kind of handing that off to other people, if that makes sense.

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#15. 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 I'm good about tactfully tiptoeing around questions in the right way.

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#16. I've been in bands since I was about fifteen, so there are probably quite a lot of terrible teenage songs kicking about somewhere. I'm not sure what it was about to be honest, I think it was probably just something along the lines of teen angst.

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#17. I enjoy working with people. That seems simplistic, but whenever I'm distressed, angry, and want to feel like something can be done about something, it feels better when you surround yourself with people.

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

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#19. Writing with other people is the only way I ever really work. In some ways it's great because it's helpful to someone pull you out of the loop.

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#20. I feel like I would need to investigate and get some local tips. I think if I've learned anything from being on tour, it's that sometimes things you see in the guidebooks are stereotypically the best things to do, but there's no substitute for local knowledge on that stuff.

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#21. 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.

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#22. For us, the stuff we know is writing songs, playing shows, and that's what we're trying to concentrate on. Not trying to read about yourselves or looking up things about yourselves on the Internet - it's the key, or you'll go insane!

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#23. 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.

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#24. 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.

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#25. I'm abstaining from romance and the discussion of romance.

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#26. I think a lot of things that people think are complimentary are a little bit condescending, but then we just have to keep doing what we're doing, and being in the band is the important bit.

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

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#28. I don't know Justin Bieber so I wouldn't want to marry a man I don't know.

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