Shirley Manson

Shirley: I am sweet, but f*ck with me and I'll mop the floor with you.

Shirley: Sometimes I wonder myself. I used to be a shop assistant and nobody ever called me a sex symbol. I was the skinny redhead. People didn't tell me I'm sexy. They told me I'm too skinny and too pale. All of a sudden people consider me a sex symbol just because I sing in a band and I'm on stage. Sometimes I think I could wear a bin-liner over my head and there would be a couple of weirdos out there who'd consider it sexy. 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: I look at today's charts, at the women who are selling the most records, getting the most column inches, and I'm terrified by how they are all controlled by a male corporate idea of what women and rebels should be. When Christina Aguilera is taken seriously as a rebellious figure, we have a huge problem.