Quotes By Shirley Manson

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.

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 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.

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

It's definitely an intrinsic part of my makeup that makes me want to see black when everyone else is seeing white.

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.

I've got a lot of stamina and I enjoy people, so having lots of people around doesn't freak me out.

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.

I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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