Quotes By Shirley Manson

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

And then there's all these other creeps that surround your band and suck off you like leeches and try to manipulate you and your business. You have to watch like a hawk. I'm always ready to fight. I see it very much as a battle.

No, I'm not Shirley the girl, I'm the woman on MTV with the big boots.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Humans all want to beat the clock but nobody ever does.

I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me.

My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket.

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.

Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.

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

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.

I feel privileged, to be honest.

I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it.

In terms of fitting in, you know, I don't have a lot of armor up. I'm a raw nerve and it's really uncomfortable for a lot of people.

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.

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 know lots of people who've never been lucky enough to get to this stage in their life. And I'm not gonna hide it for anybody.

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.

It's everywhere, constant criticism of women's appearance in magazines and online. It's not easy to navigate.

If you have any opinions at all or if you're even remotely verbal then they're going to call you fiery.

I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually.

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

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.