We've digressed from the true meaning of life. We have replaced the Creator with money and claim Him in the name of war. We have dishonored our children.

I feel like all four of us are really powerful in our messages, what we speak about, and what we are about.

We're all really passionate, and we voice it in our own way, and we all come from a loving place and see from the same perspective, which is why I feel so blessed to be part of this group.

There's straight people, and there's super gay people, and then there's everybody in between, and everybody is a little bit of something because sexuality is fluid.

My theory is the spectrum: there's a spectrum of sexuality.

I think Ed Sheeran would be a great collaboration.

It's amazing the support we've been able to get from Latinos and just in general from everyone.

We are screaming battle cries against those whose political and personal agendas threaten our lives and sanity.

I'm actually a huge fan of changing every single 'anti-Trump' sentiment to 'pro-human rights' because they are synonymous.

Societies have been conditioned to believe that entertainers are just that, but I refuse to be put into the box of a puppet.

It's cool to be able to give each other that space to really explore ourselves individually and grow.

What I would tell everyone is don't lose your sense of individuality.

I don't know if anyone should do anything that's not authentic to them.

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.

Objectification, whatever its form, is not something anyone should have to 'just deal with.'

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.

I did my dissertation on the idea of femininity and women's writing, so I spent eight months reading about how women are portrayed in the media in terms of images and tone of voice and what words are used.

Moving from a first to a second album is an incredibly transitional time for any band because you never get to make one in a vacuum like you did with your debut.

I identify as a feminist but subscribe to the pretty basic definition of a feminist as 'someone who seeks equality between the sexes.'

Is the casual objectification of women so commonplace that we should all just suck it up, roll over, and accept defeat? I hope not.

I've always worked in cinemas or cafes to make money because it turns out freelance journalism is quite hard to get into.

People say Taylor Swift's not feminist enough or Beyonce's not feminist enough, but there are 12-year-old girls going to their shows and taking an awesome message.

When I'm writing, it's because I'm trying to figure something out for myself. If I don't believe in what I've written, then how can I expect anyone else to believe in that, either?

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 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.

There's a difference between criticism and hatred.

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

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

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.

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.

It's nice to squash people's expectations.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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?'

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

The film world feels like a smaller world than music.

I think about politics, so it would be inauthentic not to talk about it.

I am in a band that was born on the Internet.