‘When I Grow Up’ is a 1998 song written, recorded and produced by alternative rock band Garbage. The song was released as the fourth international single to be taken from the band's multi-platinum second album Version 2.0 over the course of the following year.
— Wikipedia entry, “When I Grow Up (Garbage song)”
Have you met anyone you think is a grown up yet?
Totally. I’m constantly patronised by people who think they’re really mature and have their life in order and are really together. That’s so small-minded. I would hate to think I got to a certain age and decided, ‘OK, that’s it, I’ve now grown completely.’ You can’t think of it in terms of physical growth, or physical decline. Growing up never ends. That’s what’s so fucking amazing. Do you ever want to be sitting with nothing to do? I don’t.
— Shirley Manson, interviewed for “Trash Therapy,” Juice Magazine, Australia, June 1998
The men who rule the world
Have made a fucking mess
The history of power
The worship of success
The king is in the counting house
He's chairman of the board
The women who crowd the courtrooms
All accused of being whores
“I think in indignance you can still carry humor with you, as well as softness, kindness, and love in your heart. I just felt it would be inauthentic to say anything other than what I was saying in my daily life across the dinner table from my friends and my family. I think as you get older as an artist, the challenge is, ‘How I can be my most authentic self?’ because that’s the most unique story I can tell.”
— Garbage’s Shirley Manson Interview, Rolling Stone, July 6, 2021
“Anyway, moving on, what was your fucking moronic question?” — Shirley Manson, in an interview for VICE, June 29, 2017
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