Shirley Manson Quotes:
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
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
It’s definitely an intrinsic part of my makeup that makes me want to see black when everyone else is seeing white.
Shirley Manson
Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.
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
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
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
No, I’m not Shirley the girl, I’m the woman on MTV with the big boots.
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
No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.
Shirley Manson
That’s a difficult question, because to consider yourself a rebel is sort of ridiculous.
Shirley Manson
I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me.
Shirley Manson
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
I don’t find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually.
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
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
I feel the same way I did when I was in school. I’m having the same insecurities.
Shirley Manson
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
I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they’re just meant to look pretty and sing pretty.
Shirley Manson