( CNN ) -- Shirley Manson recalls how Garbage came to call their new album `` Not Your Kind of People . '' `` Butch came in one day and he said , ' I 've got this title for a song that I think you 're really going to like . It 's we 're 'Not Your Kind of People . ' And I was like , 'Ooh yeah , I do love that title . Actually , I think that would make a great title for the record ! ' '' `` Not Your Kind of People '' would also become a mission statement for the post-grunge quartet 's first CD in seven years . `` I think we 've come to the realization that it 's OK to be a bit odd , '' said Manson . `` It 's OK not to fit in , and actually , it 's OK if you 're not cool . '' Manson was 28 when she burst out of the Madison , Wisconsin , music scene in 1995 with guitarist Steve Marker , bassist Duke Erikson and drummer Butch Vig . As the man who produced the Smashing Pumpkins ' `` Gish '' and Nirvana 's `` Nevermind , '' Vig may have had the name , but it was Manson who became the face of Garbage : a flame-haired Scottish vixen who prowled the stage in boots and a minidress , taking `` Stupid Girls '' to task and pouting that she 's `` Only Happy When it Rains . '' The group 's subversive wit and sonic collision of pop , alternative rock and electronica placed them squarely outside the mainstream , yet it was the mainstream that embraced them . Over the course of four CDs , they sold 13 million albums worldwide . But there have been tensions , too . In 2003 , the band took a break . The next year , they re-grouped and released another record , only to call it quits in the midst of their `` Bleed Like Me '' world tour of 2005 . `` It was n't the touring that we really had a problem with . It 's just unfortunately all the issues that we had culminated whilst we were touring , '' Manson recalled . She blamed many of those problems on their old record company . `` We were an indie band signed to an indie label , and then we got sold as a commodity to a major label that had very little interest in us , and it was a miserable experience for us . '' `` Not Your Kind of People '' was released May 15 on the group 's own label , Stunvolume . `` Free at last ! '' Manson exclaimed . `` We are signing the checks on absolutely everything , which is terrifying , but I think nothing ventured in life that does n't require a little risk is not worth taking . I think this time around , what is different is that we 're not tied to making ridiculous amounts of profit . That 's just not what we 're interested in , and it 's certainly not why we joined a band in the first place . '' Manson is now 45 . With her signature red hair and creamy complexion , she 's as appealing as she was in the mid-'90s . The new record picks up where Garbage left off seven years ago , not veering too far from their meticulously crafted layers of goth-tinged pop-rock . This is a band that knows it sounds different from everyone else , and does n't care to conform . `` We took some time off . We just felt a little burnt out , if truth be told . And then I guess we just had enough life happen that we felt ready to create again , '' she said . `` I called the band up and said , 'Are you into this ? ' And they said , 'Yup ! We 're in . Let 's do it . ' ''
` ` Not Your Kind of People '' is Manson 's first album in seven years . ` ` I think we ' ve come to the realization that it 's OK to be a little odd , '' said Shirley Manson . Over the course of three CDs , the group sold one million copies worldwide .