Shirley Manson

Shirley Manson
Shirley Ann Mansonis a Scottish singer, songwriter, musician and actress. She is the lead singer of the alternative rock band Garbage. For much of her international career Manson commuted between her home city of Edinburgh and the United States to record with Garbage; she now lives and works in Los Angeles. Manson gained media attention for her forthright style, rebellious attitude and distinctive voice...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth26 August 1966
CityEdinburgh, Scotland
It's definitely an intrinsic part of my makeup that makes me want to see black when everyone else is seeing white.
What makes a woman stylish is what she has to say and how she chooses to live her life.
One day I realized that it didn't matter whether people loved me or not.
I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty.
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.
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.
Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.
It's a torturous time when you learn almost everything you really have to know about survival. The important thing to remember when you are living through it, however, is that you have absolutely no idea quite how smart and strong and beautiful the pain will make you. So go forth and suffer...you'll rule the world.
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 want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don't want girls to be defanged and declawed and pretty and mute.
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.
We're living in a time when people are struggling to appear perfect.
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.
Somehow or another, my mother taught me to push through my fear, always. Feel the fear and do it anyway.