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" 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

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Shirley Manson

Know

Comfort

" 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

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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

End

Day

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

Shirley Manson

My Own

Mean

" 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! "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" People don't associate red hair, pale skin, and freckles with beauty. "

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

Shirley Manson

Out

Got

" No, I'm not Shirley the girl, I'm the woman on MTV with the big boots. "

" In the '90s, the radio was still alive with all different kinds of points of view, and I think that's why people are longing for that time. It was the first time that alternative music broke through to the mainstream. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "