Shirley Manson Quotes

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.
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.
That's a difficult question, because to consider yourself a rebel is sort of ridiculous.
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.
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.
How you present yourself is nobody's business but your own. The stylists have an opinion. The hair people have an opinion. The fans and the management have opinions. Ultimately, you have to trust that you are the safe-keeper of yourself.
Humans all want to beat the clock but nobody ever does.
I am greedy, and most importantly, game for what's next.
I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually.
I feel privileged, to be honest.
I feel the same way I did when I was in school. I'm having the same insecurities.
I just am fascinated by other female artists, probably because I feel a kinship with them, no matter who they are and what they do.
I just want to live my life a little freely and not adhere to any schedule - just make music and have fun.
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 love pop music. Who doesn't?
I plan on doing as much in my life as I possibly can.
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 a lot of people in their lives feel like they don't fit in, even if it looks like they do. People feel like outsiders even if others think we, the lives we live, have everything. If they are popular or they have everything they are supposed to have. Even then, people still don't feel quite included.
I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty.
I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty. You don't really hear a female perspective on the radio, because so many of the songs are being written by men.
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Shirley Manson
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26 August, 1966
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