"Despite the cold, cryptic guise of Gazelle Twin, when I’m out of costume, I am ‘myself’. For example, I prefer to be frank and open in interviews rather than evasive, or attempting to create a kind of ‘mythological’ aura - I don’t think this is helpful as I’m not interested in transforming ‘Elizabeth Walling’ into a legend or persona - I’m more like the puppeteer of the project. That’s not to say that everything contained within Gazelle Twin doesn’t derive from me as a person, I just made a very specific decision to distance myself from what I had created and how I delivered it to the public arena. I’ve seen too many female artists try to become their persona through-and-through and I don’t think it works out of context, or helps with longevity. It’s why I have always admired people like Polly Harvey and Kate Bush so much, despite their performances and personas on records they are lovely, friendly people and don’t pretend to be otherwise."

"I don’t think there’s anything scary about them, I just think they’re striking, they’re individualists, and that upsets people at times. It frightens people because society in general makes us think we’re not supposed to be like that. They’re strong women and that intimidates men."

Reblogged from forever-delayed

Shirley Manson on PJ Harvey and Courtney Love (via revengeonseattle)

(Source: forever-delayed)