Quote: I feel the same way I did when I was in school. I'm having the same insecurities. They don't go away just because they call you a sex symbol. [Shirley Manson]
Quote: She seems very benign and wholesome, ... but underneath lurks an incredible toughness and powerful directness. [Shirley Manson]
Quote: Sex is not the enemy . . . I won't feel guilty no matter what they're telling me [Shirley Manson]
Quote: We wanted to make a record that sounded like we do live, ... We sort of stripped away a lot of the production of this record and tried to make it bare bones. [Shirley Manson]
Quote: I think they're a little shocked at first. . . . Then they start laughing or grinning or shaking my hand [Shirley Manson]
Quote: I don't think I have seen a single green vegetable in three months, so I just need to get my life into some sort of sense of control [Shirley Manson]
Quote: We have discussed this and I don't think anybody is interested in breaking up. [Shirley Manson]
Quote: We're taking a hiatus, ... I don't know if we're calling it a day. [Shirley Manson]
Quote: We always swore if it wasn't 100 percent fun we'd stop it. So that's what we've decided to do. It was important for us to say 'we're tired, this is becoming hard, we should stop right now, [Shirley Manson]
Quote: We discussed it in an adult fashion over dinner one day and since then a burden has been lifted from everybody and our live shows have been incredible. [Shirley Manson]
Quote: We always felt like we've never specifically fitted in with anyone; there's never been a movement surrounding what we're doing. [Shirley Manson]
Quote: I felt like a prisoner sometimes, being in essentially what is a small town in the middle of farmland [Shirley Manson]
Quote: I state for the record that I am PRO CHOICE. No government, no man, no neighbour of mine is going to tell ME what I choose to do with MY BODY or MY LIFE. How dare ANYONE, even for a MILLISECOND, consider it reasonable to legislate over the insides of another human being. Where will that kind of legislation end? Will it eventually lead to goverment legislation over our organs?
NOBODY has the right to legislate over another persons body.
We may not always approve of what another person chooses to do with their own body, but quite frankly.....IT'S NONE OF OUR DAMNED BUSINESS.
For instance....if I had my way.......I would OUTLAW plastic surgery. It's facism. It's INSANE. It's DANGEROUS. But you know what... millions of people, indeed I would imagine the majority of people, would disagree with me. So I have to simply choose not to have surgery MYSELF. And that is the end of it. [Shirley Manson]
Quote: I get female groupies, but I don't get male groupies. I have women who offer to sleep with me all the time. But not men. They're all talk and nay action -- as we'd say in Scotland. If I go anywhere near most of our male following, they are freaked. Absolutely freaked. I think my height has got a lot to do with it. I'm really tall. I'm five-eight, and with heels, I'm six foot, so people are like. 'Whoa, Amazon!' People are a wee taken aback by that 'cause I think people expect me to be small. [Shirley Manson]
Quote: I don't really see where I fit into that group, but I'm very flattered. I think, though, all of us women, regardless of how different we are as artists, come from a similar place in terms of how we view our role as a female musician. All of us are pretty feisty. And I think that that's what people identify with. Because there seem to be so few women right now who are interested in having an opinion. Having something to say. Trying to do things a little differently. Refusing to take our clothes off to further our careers. [Shirley Manson]
Quote: The communication had gotten so bad that I don't think any of us know, even to this day, what was going on in each individual's mind. And we've never really spoken about it. But I do know that Butch felt that he quit. [Shirley Manson]
Quote: I don't think we feel Garbage will ever be completely over. It's part of our lives, we still all get on well and love each other. We're taking a hiatus, I don't know if we're calling it a day. I don't think I'll ever make music with another band. [Shirley Manson]
Quote: We have discussed this and I don't think anybody is interested in breaking up. We feel that this has been a really great tour, and we feel that we have really muscled through and produced a great record, and we just want to take some time off while things are really good between us. [Shirley Manson]
Quote: I want to hang out in Edinburgh with my friends and eat fish and chips wrapped in newspaper. [Shirley Manson]
Quote: 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]
Quote: That's very kind of you but that's not how they really see it [Shirley Manson]
Quote: We were very aware we'd made a record that was quite unusual [Shirley Manson]
Quote: I've been on the go since January, and I think we all just feel a little burnt out ... We came to the conclusion that we shouldn't carry on without having a break. Any stuff that you read about our future is bogus, because it's completely undetermined as yet. [Shirley Manson]
Quote: I don't find any kind of tension very productive, ... I find it destructive, actually. I think this record was made despite the mood in our camp, and that something very productive came out of it, which came as a surprise. [Shirley Manson]
Quote: 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. [Shirley Manson]