Quotes By 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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

I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well.

You don't really hear a female perspective on the radio, because so many of the songs are being written by men.