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" 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

Looks

Girl

Good

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" 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. "

" 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'm a loud person; I love noise and aggression. I crave contact. "

" 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 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. "

" I am greedy, and most importantly, game for what's next. "

Shirley Manson

Most

Game

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I have a temper on me that could hold back tides. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'd never imagined myself in a band. So the fact that I've had such a long career without really naturally pursuing it is really astounding. It's taken me a long time to accept what I do for a living and actually feel like I have anything of value to add to the equation. "

Shirley Manson

Time

Long

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

Shirley Manson

Know

Comfort

" I'm afraid of happy people. They're chemically unbalanced. "

" 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. "

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