Shirley Manson Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“We're living in a time when people are struggling to appear perfect.”

“I love pop music. Who doesn't?”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I like the feeling that I'm giving young women self-confidence. It sounds so cliched, but it can be very moving.”

“No, I'm not Shirley the girl, I'm the woman on MTV with the big boots.”

“How you present yourself is nobody's business but your own. The stylists have an opinion. The hair people have an opinion. The fans and the management have opinions. Ultimately, you have to trust that you are the safe-keeper of yourself.”

“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.”

“I think a lot of people in their lives feel like they don't fit in, even if it looks like they do. People feel like outsiders even if others think we, the lives we live, have everything. If they are popular or they have everything they are supposed to have. Even then, people still don't feel quite included.”