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

Anne Carson and Angela Carter are folks I hold close to my heart because they have such unique ways of telling stories.

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.

I think looking at the front row of a Chvrches show is really diverse. It could be 50-year-old dudes who love Depeche Mode or teenagers or teenage girls and their dad.

I don't have a lot of time for things that are deliberately, achingly cool.

It only takes two seconds of your life to say, 'I don't agree with white supremacy. I don't agree with homophobia.'

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?'

No one has a better idea of what Chvrches is than we do.

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

Ultimately, what we're striving for is people being allowed to do what they want and not feeling they should or shouldn't do certain things.

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

Seeing people communicate about the band online has been amazing, but 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.

There will never be a job that I do in this industry where I don't have to talk about being a woman. I will always be a female artist. People will put that in front whether you like it or not.

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.

A relationship can be deeply damaging without anyone leaving marks on you. So many people - especially young women - end up trying to maintain those emotionally abusive relationships because we don't think it's that bad and that we are really some of the lucky ones because we haven't experienced 'real' abuse.

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.

It's nice to squash people's expectations.

Makeup and clothing and all that should be a fun way to be creative and express yourself. Just like in nature, where birds have all the colors. But instead, it's all focused on the aesthetics of being attractive to men. Even if you really don't think it is that, that's what we're doing.

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.

I don't want to sound negative here, but I don't know any lady that was surprised by #MeToo.

I discovered the idea of feminism when I watched the film '10 Things I Hate About You.' It's a classic.

There's a difference between criticism and hatred.

I never wanted to write really cheesy pop lyrics - like, 'baby, baby, the sun is shining' - that's not something that interests me personally. I'm always wanting to write something that has some kind of meaning.

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.