Quotes By Shirley Manson

I love pop music. Who doesn't?

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I feel privileged, to be honest.

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