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" I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty. You don't really hear a female perspective on the radio, because so many of the songs are being written by men. "

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" 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

Fight

You

Business

" 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. "

" Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy. "

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

" I feel the same way I did when I was in school. I'm having the same insecurities. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

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

" 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

Together

" 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. "

" We're living in a time when people are struggling to appear perfect. "

" I plan on doing as much in my life as I possibly can. "

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

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

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

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

Shirley Manson

Know

Comfort

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

" I think a lot of people in their lives feel like they don't fit in, even if it looks like they do. People feel like outsiders even if others think we, the lives we live, have everything. If they are popular or they have everything they are supposed to have. Even then, people still don't feel quite included. "

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

Shirley Manson

White

Want

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" People in day-to-day life tend to skim the surface of things and be polite and careful, and that's not the language I speak. I like talking about feelings, fears and memories, anguish and joy, and I find it in music. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "