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1. The bands that we’ve found we have something in common with are bands like The National or Tegan And Sara, and I feel like that’s because all three of us come from more alternative rock backgrounds.
2. I guess, at the end of the day, I want to be viewed as a musician.
3. I operate a pretty strict muting and blocking policy on Twitter.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Nobody is strong 100 percent of the time or falling apart 100 percent of the time; sometimes you’re doing both at once.
7. There are so many problems with feminism, as women spend a lot of time telling other women what to do, and that distracts from the actual problem.
8. 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.
9. We went from playing small clubs to quite big stages quite quickly, and a lot of the time, I felt like I was trying to catch up with myself. Figuring out how to take up space was an interesting journey.
10. Crushes start out as that teenage phenomenon, life-affirming and cute, but as you wander into adulthood, they seem to end up more painful, harrowing, and uncertain, especially if you have just come out of the relationship you thought would finally, maybe, maybe be the one that stuck.
11. It’s nice to squash people’s expectations.
12. I discovered the idea of feminism when I watched the film ’10 Things I Hate About You.’ It’s a classic.
13. We were overwhelmed by how much the first album connected with people, but I wouldn’t put us in the ‘pop star’ realm.
14. I have a personal Twitter for band purposes, but I don’t use social media a lot.
15. 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.
16. I identify as a feminist but subscribe to the pretty basic definition of a feminist as ‘someone who seeks equality between the sexes.’
17. I’ll scroll through Instagram, but I have to take Internet breaks.
18. 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.
19. I think about politics, so it would be inauthentic not to talk about it.
20. 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.