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I don't ever get too literal.
I love being home. I play with my dogs.
I'm able to switch gears at any moment.
I want to be a producer and not a songwriter.
For me, Heaven is evoking emotions through sound.
My family, they are definitely not an ordinary family.
I don't feel the need to be in the spotlight whatsoever.
Food is supposed to be vibrant, fresh, filled with color.
In no way am I a spiritual person. I'm not some guru geek.
Rick Rubin's amazing, by the way. I just need to say that.
I don't want to be a rock star. I had my 15 minutes of fame.
To give is one of the greatest gifts one could ever receive.
I'm just in tune to myself and what I need from the universe.
Music comes from inside. It's not a style. It's just passion.
I usually write songs in a guy key because my voice is so husky.
You kind of have to have no ego to be a producer and a songwriter.
There's a lot of artists that are celebrities, not really artists.
I don't think I'm the world's greatest producer or songwriter or anything.
I didn't like being out in the limelight. I love performing, but that's it.
I was raised in a time when parents brought out belts, and you got tough love.
Rock & roll doesn't belong on a grid. It belongs on a pulse - a natural pulse.
I want to be so giving and collaborative, but my best songs were written on my own.
My number one goal is to take over the music business and run a really great record company.
I love writing songs, but I don't want to write the songs everyone else is asking me to write.
Courtney Love's name should be right next to Bob Dylan when they say best lyricist of all time.
A lot of people call me a 'machine,' and I don't think a lot of men or women operate the way I do.
I've lived out in a park sleeping on the grass with no place to go; I've not eaten. I've been there.
It's not a 'sexy' position, being the producer. You have to be very bossy. You have to be very aggressive.
People come to me to write songs that will be successful for them, and they allow me the freedom to do so.
I want to show people my interpretation of what creating music is, and this is where it comes from: the heart.
I have a lot of songs that I kind of put away, and I don't let anybody else hear them, and those are my songs.
I nurture people's talents because, at the end of it, that's what they're left with. They're left with themselves.
I don't care if I go broke. I don't care about all that stuff. I just want to know that I did everything I wanted to do.
I told my mom I was gay when I was 16, and my mom said with her heavy Brazilian accent, 'OK, but at least look good at it.'
I get to do all the styles of music that I love. There's no boundaries; there's nobody holding on to me saying I can't do that.
I love Pink, and I love Christina Aguilera. Something about Christina always inspires me to do things that are really different.
It'll never get old to hear a song that I wrote on the radio or to hear what someone experienced when they heard a song I wrote.
I think women gravitate toward me because I am a woman producing and songwriting, and there's none out there. There really isn't.
Sometimes I'll look back at old pictures where I'm a little heavy and dressed funny and think, 'How did I get chicks all the time?'
'American Idol' is a machine. It's a machine that's making a lot of money, that's selling a lot of product. It's 'American Marketing.'
I'm a fast learner, and I believe in change, and I believe in growing, and I believe in moving forward and not staying in the same place.
People are gonna get tired of Linda Perry the producer, but I will always be in the music business. And I will always be successful in it.
I don't read music. I refuse to learn how to do that. I barely know half the chords I'm playing. I like being naive when it comes to that.
I'm overcritical, insensitive, and pushy when it comes to me. With everybody else, I'm a great listener, and all I want is for them to be happy.
I'm a horrible producer when it comes to me, but for other artists, I don't know what it is, but something happens, and I'm just really good at it.
I would love for Radiohead to give me a call and say, 'Hey, kid, we wanna see what it's like working with you. We want you to produce our next record.'
When making any record, a producer has a list of things you hope an artist brings to the studio. Songs that are strong even without the bells and whistles.
I wanted to go back to writing for myself and my fans. I built my own recording studio, started my own label, and decided to use the Internet to sell my records.
To me, I feel like everything I touch will do good. Because my heart and my passion is all in the right spot. And you can't go wrong with that. But maybe I'm naive.
I'm really good at bringing out greatness - in anybody. I don't even have to be in the studio. What a gift to be able to help people bring out the best qualities in them.