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. -Shirley Manson Intelligence
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. -Shirley Manson Dad
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. -Shirley Manson Respect
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 Sad
Until we command the exact same salary as every male counterpart, I feel a political desire to stand by other women. If we don't stand together, that equality will never be fully realized, and that bothers me. -Shirley Manson Equality
I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather. -Shirley Manson Change
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
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. -Shirley Manson Women
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 Family
