Quotes By Shirley Manson

I would say I'm pretty well at ease with my sexuality, but I'm an individual before I am a female.

I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well.

Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society.

I refuse to step inside the ring and fight like a gladiator against my own. I'm not playing that game. Any woman who has survived a year or more of making music has my undying respect.

It's definitely an intrinsic part of my makeup that makes me want to see black when everyone else is seeing white.

That's a difficult question, because to consider yourself a rebel is sort of ridiculous.

At the end of the day, though, the band members have to be strong. It's down to the individuals in the unit. Listen to me, I'm talking like I'm in the army and this is my squadron.

I've got a lot of stamina and I enjoy people, so having lots of people around doesn't freak me out.

I couldn't feel good about myself hanging out in Armani clothes when my girlfriend can't even pay her heating bill. I'd feel foul and I'd be embarrassed.

You have to watch all sides of your advancement, you have to make sure people's bodies and minds are healthy and their morale is cool before you can really go out and play great music.

I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.

I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don't want girls to be defanged and declawed and pretty and mute.

I have a temper on me that could hold back tides.

Starbucks is my main fix and it's usually you people working in there - sometimes they're actually shaking. It just makes me feel horrendous because I've been in that situation.

Selling millions of albums is a sign you've infiltrated the culture.

No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.

I am not a sexy woman, I'm not beautiful, I'm not a sex kitten, I don't flirt with people, yet I've been tagged more of sex symbol than women who truly are and I that's solely because I don't reveal too much: people are curious.

I am greedy, and most importantly, game for what's next.

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more.

I'm fairly in control and I don't like to flirt particularly. I mean, obviously if I meet someone who I think is hot, of course I'll want to flirt with him, But in general I don't use it in day-to-day life.

We're living in a time when people are struggling to appear perfect.

I feel the same way I did when I was in school. I'm having the same insecurities.

I plan on doing as much in my life as I possibly can.

A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people bow down to them. To me, that's frightful behavior.

I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies.

The sensation of never feeling good enough or pretty enough will always be there. It's a constant dialogue, and you just learn to be more powerful than that other voice. When you hear it come up, you shut it down.

I've got no timetable. I'm sort of sick of timetables, to be honest.

You don't really hear a female perspective on the radio, because so many of the songs are being written by men.

I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty.