I've always been an outsider. I am an outsider in Garbage. I'm the odd one out by default.

- Shirley Manson

Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.

- Shirley Manson

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 star…

- Shirley Manson

What makes a woman stylish is what she has to say and how she chooses to live her life.

- Shirley Manson

I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don't want girls to be defanged and declawed and pretty and mute.

- Shirley Manson

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

- Shirley Manson

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 th…

- Shirley Manson

I'm afraid of happy people. They're chemically unbalanced.

- Shirley Manson

I say embrace the total geek in yourself and just enjoy it. Life is too short to be cool.

- Shirley Manson