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I'm 45 years old. I used to be a club girl, but that's not my world anymore. That doesn't mean I can't make music that excites. I think it's inspiring to see an artist you grew up with take another crack.

Shirley Manson

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Shirley Manson
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 26
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Shirley Ann Manson
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I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me.
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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.
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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.
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The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression.
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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.
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I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well.
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It's everywhere, constant criticism of women's appearance in magazines and online. It's not easy to navigate.
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I think young artists are always inspiring because they are coming at worlds from a different point of view.
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Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chosen not to support a more provocative voice from women, which I find disappointing.
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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 want to hang out in Edinburgh with my friends and eat fish and chips wrapped in newspaper.
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People don't associate red hair, pale skin, and freckles with beauty.
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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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Everybody's trying to be the biggest, because if you're not the biggest, you don't survive.
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Being a musician makes you very - musicians in general tend to be quite sensitive, I think, to the environment around them, which helps when you are trying to interact with others on screen, to be aware, to be sensitive, and to try to understand what's going on in the scene.
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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.
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I am naive. I make mistakes - But I don't give a rat's arse how I am perceived!
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It is so hard for musicians when they step into acting is they're not coming in as a blank slate, they're coming in with a real set idea of who they are, where they're coming from, what their politics are, what their tastes are.
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A lot of my friends are artists or musicians or single parent families and I'm totally aware of how difficult it is for them to make ends meet.
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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.
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