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" For me, Heaven is evoking emotions through sound. "
Linda Perry
Sound
Heaven
Emotions
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" I just love music. I love writing songs. It's not even a job; it's a gift. I'm waiting for someone to kick me out of the party because I snuck in here, and I keep thinking somebody's going to figure out that I have no clue. Turns out that most of them have even less of a clue. "
Linda Perry
Job
Gift
Love
" I'm a songwriter, an artist, and a musician. I do not have to try to be that; I just am. "
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Just
Songwriter
" I love being home. I play with my dogs. "
Linda Perry
I Love
Dogs
Being
" I've lived out in a park sleeping on the grass with no place to go; I've not eaten. I've been there. "
Linda Perry
Lived
Sleeping
Grass
" I've had many songs where I've gone, 'Oh, my God, this song is going to be huge!' but it wasn't the right artist, or something just didn't happen. It didn't make the song any worse. It just didn't line up. That does happen. "
Linda Perry
God
Line
Right
" 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. "
Linda Perry
Work
You
Me
" 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. "
Linda Perry
Else
Great
Want
" 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. "
Linda Perry
Music
Mother
Guitar
" I think women gravitate toward me because I am a woman producing and songwriting, and there's none out there. There really isn't. "
Linda Perry
Me
Women
Woman
" 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. "
Linda Perry
Passion
You
Me
" 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. "
Linda Perry
Business
Always
People
" 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. "
Linda Perry
Out
Best
Gift
" 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. "
Linda Perry
Back
Writing
Myself
" A lot of people call me a 'machine,' and I don't think a lot of men or women operate the way I do. "
Linda Perry
Think
People
Way
" I'm not a children's songwriter. I'm not in that world. "
Linda Perry
Songwriter
World
Children
" If you want to be famous, you can. "
Linda Perry
Want
You
Famous
" I don't ever get too literal. "
Linda Perry
Ever
Get
Too
" 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.' "
Linda Perry
Me
Want
Love
" I was raised in a time when parents brought out belts, and you got tough love. "
Linda Perry
You
Love
Time
" 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. "
Linda Perry
Music
Learn
Naive
" 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. "
Linda Perry
Moving Forward
Change
Believe
" I want to show people my interpretation of what creating music is, and this is where it comes from: the heart. "
Linda Perry
Want
Music
Heart
" I don't think I could make a pop album. "
Linda Perry
Album
Pop
Think
" I'm great at working with people and collaborating. And if my biggest gift of all is that I'm really good at pulling things from people and helping them become better at what they're doing, I'm here, as I believe all of us are, to be of service. "
Linda Perry
Great
People
Gift
" I'm just in tune to myself and what I need from the universe. "
Linda Perry
Tune
Universe
Just
" Food is supposed to be vibrant, fresh, filled with color. "
Linda Perry
Color
Vibrant
Supposed
" 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. "
Linda Perry
Small
Artist
Bad
" We're married. We are one now. There's no running away. We have to deal with things together and figure them out, and that's the greatest gift. I'm in it. People ask me, 'How do you maintain a relationship?' I don't know, but all I do know is that I chose Sara to be the one, and when I choose something, that's all that matters, and I'm totally in. "
Linda Perry
Me
Gift
People
" I did love 'What's Up?' but I hated the production. "
Linda Perry
Hated
Did
Up
" I want to be so giving and collaborative, but my best songs were written on my own. "
Linda Perry
My Own
Songs
Own