Shirley Manson Quotes - Page 2

I refuse to step inside the ring and fight like a gladiator against my own. I'm not playing that game. Any woman who has survived a year or more of making music has my undying respect.

I think it's about time the world embraced its geekiness and stopped trying to be cool. It's just...you have way more fun as a geek than as a cool person.

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

I wouldn't say that cutting was pleasurable, but there is a sense of euphoria that follows cutting yourself. The quick pinch of pain and the sight of blood snaps you back to the surface and you start to appreciate being alive.

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

Being a singer, being a performer, you have tricks, somehow, to calm yourself when things feel a little overwhelming. I don't do breathing exercises, per se, but I definitely have to have a sort of internal word with myself before things got completely out of hand and I fainted on the floor.

I want to hang out in Edinburgh with my friends and eat fish and chips wrapped in newspaper.

Even to survive and have everyone in good health now is really precious. Bands half our age don't even get that lucky sometimes. It's good to practice gratitude, as they say. I used to be so ungracious, I wasn't even aware that I should be feeling grateful! Now I actually try and put it into my daily thought: Be grateful. It's not always so easy.

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.

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.

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

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.

Somehow or another, my mother taught me to push through my fear, always. Feel the fear and do it anyway.

If you have any opinions at all or if you're even remotely verbal then they're going to call you fiery.

We should never listen to our feelings. They lead us astray.

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

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

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

I am naive. I make mistakes - But I don't give a rat's arse how I am perceived!

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

Here's the tragedy of the modern record business: It's radio. If you're not on radio, nobody really is going to hear you or see you or care about you.

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

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

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.

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