“I like the feeling that I'm giving young women self-confidence. It sou...” — Shirley Manson Quote

I like the feeling that I'm giving young women self-confidence. It sounds so cliched, but it can be very moving.

I've got no timetable. I'm sort of sick of timetables, to be honest.

People in day-to-day life tend to skim the surface of things and be polite and careful, and that's not the language I speak. I like talking about feelings, fears and memories, anguish and joy, and I find it in music.

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!

That's a difficult question, because to consider yourself a rebel is sort of ridiculous.

It's difficult to write about poverty in a way that doesn't feel cliched.

I don't follow many cliched things in my TV shows.

This would sound cliched, but my parents have been my biggest support system.

My character should not be ordinary, cliched, and if I feel that it's difficult to do this character, I take up that challenge to get into his character.

It will sound very cliched but when I was kid I always wanted to be singer and never an actor.