Quotes By Shirley Manson

I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!

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.

I like the feeling that I'm giving young women self-confidence. It sounds so cliched, but it can be very moving.

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.

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

I love pop music. Who doesn't?

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.