Shirley Manson famous quotes

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 behaviour.
-- Shirley Manson

#Car #People #House

I was a redhead and a middle child; both can make you feel excluded. It's like fighting to be included, in the swim of things. After a while you start to develop a bit of a victim mentality, which isn't great for a happy life.
-- Shirley Manson

#Children #Fighting #Happy Life

Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.
-- Shirley Manson

#Boys #Naughty #People

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

#Powerful #Voice #Feel Good

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

#Believe #People #Different

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

#Makeup #White #Black

It's a torturous time when you learn almost everything you really have to know about survival. The important thing to remember when you are living through it, however, is that you have absolutely no idea quite how smart and strong and beautiful the pain will make you. So go forth and suffer...you'll rule the world.
-- Shirley Manson

#Beautiful #Strong #Pain

What makes a woman stylish is what she has to say and how she chooses to live her life.
-- Shirley Manson

#Stylish

People don't associate red hair, pale skin, and freckles with beauty.
-- Shirley Manson

#Hair #People #Skins

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.
-- Shirley Manson

#Play #People #Healthy

I love pop music. Who doesn't?
-- Shirley Manson

#Pops #Pop Music

I think young artists are always inspiring because they are coming at worlds from a different point of view.
-- Shirley Manson

#Artist #Thinking #Views

I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it.
-- Shirley Manson

#Sick #Labels #Records

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.
-- Shirley Manson

#Mother #Dad #Hippie

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

#Moving #Self Confidence #Giving

I just want to live my life a little freely and not adhere to any schedule - just make music and have fun.
-- Shirley Manson

#Fun #Schedules #Want

I'm afraid of happy people. They're chemically unbalanced.
-- Shirley Manson

#People #Mental Health #Happy People

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.
-- Shirley Manson

#People #Sometimes #Starbucks

Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chosen not to support a more provocative voice from women, which I find disappointing.
-- Shirley Manson

#Artist #Voice #Support

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

#Crazy #People #Negativity

It's really difficult to navigate attention and stardom and celebrity status and still try to maintain yourself and hold onto your intelligence and integrity. It's really challenging.
-- Shirley Manson

#Integrity #Challenges #Trying

I'm 45 years old. I used to be a club girl, but that's not my world anymore. That doesn't mean I can't make music that excites. I think it's inspiring to see an artist you grew up with take another crack.
-- Shirley Manson

#Girl #Mean #Artist

Until we command the exact same salary as every male counterpart, I feel a political desire to stand by other women. If we don't stand together, that equality will never be fully realized, and that bothers me.
-- Shirley Manson

#Political #Desire #Together

You know, it doesn’t matter how beautiful you are, if you don’t have anything interesting to say, then you’re still boring.
-- Shirley Manson

#Beautiful #Interesting #Matter

I'm 41, I'm a woman not a kid. I have no interest in making silly pop music.
-- Shirley Manson

#Silly #Kids #Pops

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.
-- Shirley Manson

#Fighting #Years #Games

P.s. I am pretty certain Beyonce doesn't need you fighting any battles on her account. Seems like she's got everything covered perfectly well on her own.
-- Shirley Manson

#Fighting #Battle #Needs

It is YOU who is so busy disrespecting artistry. You disrespect your own remarkable talents and more importantly you disrespect the talent, hard work, and tenacity of all artists when you go so rudely and savagely after such an accomplished and humble artist like BECK.
-- Shirley Manson

#Humble #Hard Work #Artist

I want to hang out in Edinburgh with my friends and eat fish and chips wrapped in newspaper.
-- Shirley Manson

#Want #Edinburgh #Fish And Chips

I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don't want girls to be defanged and declawed and pretty and mute.
-- Shirley Manson

#Girl #Viewpoints #Want

I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty.
-- Shirley Manson

#Thinking #Looks #Pops

The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression.
-- Shirley Manson

#Self #Loathing #Truth Is

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

#Strong #Army #Talking

One day I realized that it didn't matter whether people loved me or not.
-- Shirley Manson

#People #One Day #Matter

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

#Rebel #Ridiculous #Difficult

I had taken some of my solo music into the record label. They didn't really care for the direction I was moving in and I found it really disheartening. They wanted a pop hit, which I understand in terms of making money. I get that. But what they were going to ask of me was something I wasn't prepared to deliver and I felt kind of trapped. I just stopped writing. I just stopped. It was stifling.
-- Shirley Manson

#Moving #Taken #Writing

I wouldn't say that cutting was pleasurable, but there is a sense of euphoria that follows cutting yourself. The quick pinch of pain and the sight of blood snaps you back to the surface and you start to appreciate being alive.
-- Shirley Manson

#Pain #Cutting #Blood

Here am I. I'm 38. My career's probably never been better. And I've made a decision which may or may not impact on it - I refuse to hide my experience and my age, as if it's something I should be ashamed of. I'm alive. 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.
-- Shirley Manson

#Careers #Impact #People

I want to hear from the creature who isn't blessed with unbelievable good looks and incredible genes. I want to hear from the geek girl, the forgotten girl, the invisible girl and the miserable girl.
-- Shirley Manson

#Girl #Blessed #Looks

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

#Thinking #Appreciate #Boots

We're living in a time when people are struggling to appear perfect.
-- Shirley Manson

#Struggle #People #Perfect

I've got no timetable. I'm sort of sick of timetables, to be honest.
-- Shirley Manson

#Sick #Honest #Being Honest

I plan on doing as much in my life as I possibly can.
-- Shirley Manson

#Plans

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

#Laid Back #Band #Aggressive

Humans all want to beat the clock but nobody ever does.
-- Shirley Manson

#Doe #Want #Clock

I feel the same way I did when I was in school. I'm having the same insecurities.
-- Shirley Manson

#School #Insecurity #Way

I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually.
-- Shirley Manson

#Kind #Tension #Productive

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.
-- Shirley Manson

#Flirty #Mean #Flirting

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

#Female #Ease #Individual

I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me.
-- Shirley Manson

#Mean #Purpose #Crosses

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

#Weather #Mood #Contradictory

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.
-- Shirley Manson

#Girlfriend #Clothes #Feel Good

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

#Feelings #Appearance #Integrating

I am greedy, and most importantly, game for what's next.
-- Shirley Manson

#Games #Next #Greedy

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

#Song #Men #Perspective

When somebody asks me a question, I try to be as straightforward about it as possible. I try not to overthink what I'm going to say in an interview.
-- Shirley Manson

#Trying #Interviews #Straightforward

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

#Idols #Role Models #Musical

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

#Beautiful #Funeral #Albums

It's everywhere, constant criticism of women's appearance in magazines and online. It's not easy to navigate.
-- Shirley Manson

#Criticism #Magazines #Appearance

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

#People #Armor #Nerves

If you have any opinions at all or if you're even remotely verbal then they're going to call you fiery.
-- Shirley Manson

#Opinion

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

#People #Freak #Enjoy

I have a temper on me that could hold back tides.
-- Shirley Manson

#Tides #Temper

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

#Family #Sister #Girlfriend

I feel privileged, to be honest.
-- Shirley Manson

#Honest #Being Honest #Feels

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

#Beautiful #Sexy #Flirty