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" For me, Heaven is evoking emotions through sound. "

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" I'm a songwriter, an artist, and a musician. I do not have to try to be that; I just am. "

" I love being home. I play with my dogs. "

" I've lived out in a park sleeping on the grass with no place to go; I've not eaten. I've been there. "

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" I have to meet everybody I work with before I work with them. Before I say yes, I have to meet them, and then I take it from there. I don't care if you've had the best record or the worst. That doesn't matter to me. I don't care about that stuff. "

" 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've been touching instruments since the day I was born. My mother is Brazilian, and she listens to Brazilian music. My father was a musician, and I've seen pictures of him when he was in a band playing guitar and piano. He loved country music, Frank Sinatra, and stuff like that. "

" I think women gravitate toward me because I am a woman producing and songwriting, and there's none out there. There really isn't. "

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

" 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'm not a children's songwriter. I'm not in that world. "

" If you want to be famous, you can. "

" I don't ever get too literal. "

" 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.' "

" I was raised in a time when parents brought out belts, and you got tough love. "

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" 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. "

" I want to show people my interpretation of what creating music is, and this is where it comes from: the heart. "

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" I feel that when I listen to music - not that it's bad - it's not emotional. It has a gimmick to it. It's selling something: the artist, the producer, something. The emotional capacity is very small, for the listener as well. "

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