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
You have to watch all sides of your advancement, you have to make sure peoples bodies and minds are healthy and their morale is cool before you can really go out and play great music. – Shirley Manson
I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters – Im from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered! – Shirley Manson
I refuse to step inside the ring and fight like a gladiator against my own. Im not playing that game. Any woman who has survived a year or more of making music has my undying respect. – Shirley Manson
My dad was a huge country music fan, but he also had a band and he sang. So hed listen to a lot of music and the songs that hed learn for the band were more from the male artists. So my earliest country memories were Waylon Jennings, Conway Twitty, George Jones, Johnny Paycheck even. – Martina McBride