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.
Shirley MansonI had taken some of my solo music into the record label. They didn't really care for the direction I was moving in and I found it really disheartening. They wanted a pop hit, which I understand in terms of making money. I get that. But what they were going to ask of me was something I wasn't prepared to deliver and I felt kind of trapped. I just stopped writing. I just stopped. It was stifling.
Shirley MansonYou don't really hear a female perspective on the radio, because so many of the songs are being written by men.
Shirley Manson