It’s everywhere, constant criticism of women’s appearance in magazines and online. It’s not easy to navigate. – Shirley Manson
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. – Shirley Manson
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. – Shirley Manson
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. – Shirley Manson
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. – Shirley Manson
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. – Shirley Manson
It’s definitely an intrinsic part of my makeup that makes me want to see black when everyone else is seeing white. – Shirley Manson
I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me. – Shirley Manson
It’s unhealthy for people to never express any kind of negativity or doubt. To have balance, you need to address that side of your thoughts as well as the positive. Otherwise, you tend toward crazy. – Shirley Manson
I like the feeling that I’m giving young women self-confidence. It sounds so cliched, but it can be very moving. – Shirley Manson
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. – Shirley Manson
I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well. – Shirley Manson
I would say I’m pretty well at ease with my sexuality, but I’m an individual before I am a female. – Shirley Manson
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. – Shirley Manson
I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don’t want girls to be defanged and declawed and pretty and mute. – 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! – Shirley Manson
I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they’re just meant to look pretty and sing pretty. – Shirley Manson
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. – Shirley Manson
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. – Shirley Manson
That’s a difficult question, because to consider yourself a rebel is sort of ridiculous. – Shirley Manson
