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" I'm a loud person; I love noise and aggression. I crave contact. "
Shirley Manson
Noise
Loud
Person
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" I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well. "
Shirley Manson
I Am
Well
Rest
" 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
Yourself
Great
Appreciate
" It's definitely an intrinsic part of my makeup that makes me want to see black when everyone else is seeing white. "
Shirley Manson
Me
White
Want
" 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
Feel Good
Clothes
Myself
" I just want to live my life a little freely and not adhere to any schedule - just make music and have fun. "
Shirley Manson
Music
Have Fun
Want
" 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
Life
Hot
Control
" 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
Dead
Solo
Open
" 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
Music
Artist
Girl
" 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
" 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
Fix
People
Situation
" I've got a lot of stamina and I enjoy people, so having lots of people around doesn't freak me out. "
Shirley Manson
Out
Me
Got
" 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
Me
Long
" I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don't want girls to be defanged and declawed and pretty and mute. "
Shirley Manson
Viewpoint
Hear
Want
" 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
Famous
Music
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. "
Shirley Manson
Joy
Memories
People
" 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
Possible
Going
Say
" 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
Confident
Society
Feeling
" 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. "
Shirley Manson
People
Looks
Others
" I think young artists are always inspiring because they are coming at worlds from a different point of view. "
Shirley Manson
View
Think
Point
" I love pop music. Who doesn't? "
Shirley Manson
Music
Who
Pop Music
" The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression. "
Shirley Manson
Truth Is
Always
Depression
" I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me. "
Shirley Manson
My Own
Mean
Me
" 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
Find
Way
Women
" 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
Cool
You
People
" Selling millions of albums is a sign you've infiltrated the culture. "
Shirley Manson
You
Sign
Culture
" Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy. "
Shirley Manson
Punk
Seem
People
" 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
Father
Girlfriends
Even
" I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually. "
Shirley Manson
Tension
Very
Find
" 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. "
Shirley Manson
Look
Women
Think
" 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
Fame
World
Power