Shirley Manson Quotes

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Shirley Manson

Profession : Musician

Birth : August 26, 1966

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.

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Starbucks is my main fix and it's usually you people working in there - sometimes they're actually shaking. It just makes me feel horrendous because I've been in that situation.

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

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

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

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

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I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.

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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.

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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.

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I couldn't feel good about myself hanging out in Armani clothes when my girlfriend can't even pay her heating bill. I'd feel foul and I'd be embarrassed.

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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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Selling millions of albums is a sign you've infiltrated the culture.

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

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I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually.

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I just want to live my life a little freely and not adhere to any schedule - just make music and have fun.

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I've got no timetable. I'm sort of sick of timetables, to be honest.

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In terms of fitting in, you know, I don't have a lot of armor up. I'm a raw nerve and it's really uncomfortable for a lot of people.

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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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