Shirley Manson Quotes
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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.
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I think young artists are always inspiring because they are coming at worlds from a different point of view.
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Obviously, from the experience you get from making videos, you understand where the camera is and how some of the actual technicalities work and so on and so forth.
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I say embrace the total geek in yourself and just enjoy it. Life is too short to be cool.
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I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well.
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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!
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I feel the same way I did when I was in school. I'm having the same insecurities.
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I've got no timetable. I'm sort of sick of timetables, to be honest.
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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.
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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.
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I am naive. I make mistakes - But I don't give a rat's arse how I am perceived!
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I've always been an outsider. I am an outsider in Garbage. I'm the odd one out by default.
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I want to hang out in Edinburgh with my friends and eat fish and chips wrapped in newspaper.
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Everybody's trying to be the biggest, because if you're not the biggest, you don't survive.
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Being a musician makes you very - musicians in general tend to be quite sensitive, I think, to the environment around them, which helps when you are trying to interact with others on screen, to be aware, to be sensitive, and to try to understand what's going on in the scene.
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I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me.
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Ps. I am pretty certain Beyonce doesn't need you fighting any battles on her account. Seems like she's got everything covered perfectly well on her own.
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If Jennifer Lopez could write songs like Fiona Apple's, she wouldn't have to spend so many hours at the gym.
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I like the feeling that I'm giving young women self-confidence. It sounds so cliched, but it can be very moving.
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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.
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It's definitely an intrinsic part of my makeup that makes me want to see black when everyone else is seeing white.
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I love pop music. Who doesn't?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it.
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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.
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Here am I. I'm 38. My career's probably never been better. And I've made a decision which may or may not impact on it - I refuse to hide my experience and my age, as if it's something I should be ashamed of. I'm alive. 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.
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You know, it doesn’t matter how beautiful you are, if you don’t have anything interesting to say, then you’re still boring.
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The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression.
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