Latest Lauren Mayberry Quotes from Interviews

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• I'm sure that a lot of women and men feel differently about it, but for me this isn't about being the girl in the band... it's just about being IN the band, if that makes sense? We're trying to keep it in a pure and genuine place for us and not break it down to gender, because it's just a bit boring and obvious isn't it?

  Lauren Mayberry

  Girl, Men, Trying

• 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. For me, it's always about melody - it doesn't matter what genre of music you're writing, 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.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Song, Strong, Writing

• 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.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Girl, Song, Writing

• I think I have a vested interest in thinking that the lyrics are important, but I think for us it's important that we all write things that mean something to us, and I think we're not really in the business of writing la-la-love-you chart pop songs. It needs to have a personal pulling in the gut for me, to want to write anything about it.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Song, Love You, Writing

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

  Lauren Mayberry

  Men, Want, Justin

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

  Lauren Mayberry

  Thinking, Might, Hamsters

• 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!

  Lauren Mayberry

  Song, Writing, Keys

• I'm abstaining from romance and the discussion of romance.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Romance, Abstaining, Discussion

• 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.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Thinking, People, Important

• 'Princess' is a good word, as is 'girlish', 'pixie-like' and all these other things. I personally find it a bit boring, it's all been done before. The amount of times you read reviews of bands and it's an all-girl four-piece, and they talk about what the women are wearing... you'll never read a review that's like: "Male singer Thom Yorke, who was dressed in a white t-shirt and jeans..." You would never read that about a man.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Girl, Princess, Men

• 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.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Ideas, Magazines, Feminine

• 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.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Song, Teenage, Thinking

• 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.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Strong, Guitar, Brain

• 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.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Song, Writing, People

• 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."

  Lauren Mayberry

  Beautiful, Song, Thinking

• 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.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Song, Thinking, People

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

  Lauren Mayberry

  Song, People, Trying

• 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.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Thinking, Needs, Stuff

• 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.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Believe, Passion, Ideas

• Everyone's [ me, Iain Cook and Martin Doherty] equally involved in all the writing. Normally we'll start with a sample or a drumbeat, or a synth sound or something like that, and that will spark the initial idea. And then we'll write an instrumental sketch of a song, and then we put on a nonsense vocal melody, which is always my favourite bit because it obviously sounds amazing.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Song, Writing, Ideas

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

  Lauren Mayberry

  Strong, Fall, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Hate, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Ideas, One Day, Sitting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Lauren Mayberry

  Passion, Creativity, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Thinking, Organization, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com