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.
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.
A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.
And then there's all these other creeps that surround your band and suck off you like leeches and try to manipulate you and your business. You have to watch like a hawk. I'm always ready to fight. I see it very much as a battle.
At the end of the day, though, the band members have to be strong. It's down to the individuals in the unit. Listen to me, I'm talking like I'm in the army and this is my squadron.
But at the same time, I am well aware that I've always sort of woven my own weave.
I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.
I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well.
I am not a sexy woman, I'm not beautiful, I'm not a sex kitten, I don't flirt with people, yet I've been tagged more of sex symbol than women who truly are and I that's solely because I don't reveal too much: people are curious.
I couldn't feel good about myself hanging out in Armani clothes when my girlfriend can't even pay her heating bill. I'd feel foul and I'd be embarrassed.
I don't think they can deal with someone being complex and contradictory; it's not acceptable, you have to be a cartoon, a stereotype.
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.
I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!
I have a temper on me that could hold back tides.
I like the feeling that I'm giving young women self-confidence. It sounds so cliched, but it can be very moving.
I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me.
I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more.
I think music in general, and all types of art really, have always been about escapism-escaping the norm and asserting your own reality.
I was lucky when I was young to have a very mixed peer group. I hung with the girls and the boys, and that's continued all through my life.
I would say I'm pretty well at ease with my sexuality, but I'm an individual before I am a female.
I'm fairly in control and I don't like to flirt particularly. I mean, obviously if I meet someone who I think is hot, of course I'll want to flirt with him, But in general I don't use it in day-to-day life.
I'm into the whole '30's and '40's vibe in the movies where all you got was a kiss, it's always more erotic when you fantasise about kissing somebody than when you actually get to kiss them.
I'm not frightened of anybody, I'm not intimidated by anybody, but if everyone is nice to me then I'll be nice back.
I've got a lot of stamina and I enjoy people, so having lots of people around doesn't freak me out.
If you have any opinions at all or if you're even remotely verbal then they're going to call you fiery.
It's definitely an intrinsic part of my makeup that makes me want to see black when everyone else is seeing white.
Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy.
No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.
No, I'm not Shirley the girl, I'm the woman on MTV with the big boots.
Oh, yeah, I'm the ridiculous pit bull.
Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society.
Starbucks is my main fix and it's usually you people working in there - sometimes they're actually shaking. It just makes me feel horrendous because I've been in that situation.
That's a difficult question, because to consider yourself a rebel is sort of ridiculous.
The band turned into a real body. They give me things that I don't have, and I give them things that they don't have.
We just wanted to make a record that sounded cool. So we stole from hip-hop, we stole from techno and blues and mashed them all up.
You have to watch all sides of your advancement, you have to make sure people's bodies and minds are healthy and their morale is cool before you can really go out and play great music.
She actively participates in various AIDS charities. One notable occurrence was her appearance alongside Elton John and Mary J. Blige in the MAC Cosmetics' Viva Glam campaign. She is also a patron of the Edinburgh-based charity, Waverley Care, and co-hosted a fundraiser for it in January 2004.
She was interviewed for the documentary CUT: Teens and Self Injury, by Wendy Schneider.
She worked in Miss Selfridge in central Edinburgh in the 1980s.
In November 2006 she was named Scotland's most eligible woman in the annual list compiled by the Scotland on Sunday newspaper.
She spends much of her time at the band's base in Wisconsin, although she does own a house in her native Edinburgh.
She appeared in She Wants Revenge's music video, 'These Things'.
She attended Gwen Stefani's baby shower.
She is a die-hard fan of the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks.
She has no relation to Charles Manson or Marilyn Manson.
She is mentioned in the 2004 D12 song "Get The Dick" ('Your style is more garbage than Shirley Manson').
On 7 September 1996 Manson married the sculptor Eddie Farrell. They separated in 2001, which led Shirley to cut her hair short and dye it blonde. They are now divorced.
She spends much of her time at the band's base in Wisconsin, although she does own a house in her native Edinburgh.
Her first experience with music was with the bands Autumn 1904 and Wild Indians.
She gave so many troubles to her family when she was young that her mother lost her voice.
She was in the theater group when she was in high school.
She has an orange Fender Strocaster which she named "Rita."
Her divorce from sculptor husband Eddie Farrell became final in 2005. They had been separated since 2003.
She had a radical look change in late 2001, cutting her long red hair and dying it blonde months later. Went back to her long and red hair in 2005.
She was the lead singer of Angelfish by the time she was discovered by Butch Vig and Steve Marker.
Her father was a biology teacher, her mother a singer.
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