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" I don't ever get too literal. "

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" 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'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. "

" My family, they are definitely not an ordinary family. "

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

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

" 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 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 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. "

" Rock & roll doesn't belong on a grid. It belongs on a pulse - a natural pulse. "

" I'm 44, and I've never had a problem being gay, and maybe I dodged a lot of bullets, and maybe I'm one of the lucky ones. I want to make sure every kid can have that experience. "

" I was scared of failure, of being a one-hit wonder, never being able to write another song again, never being able to sing again. Maybe everything that I think I am and who I want to be never will happen. "

" 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. "

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

" If you're not confident, people push you around. That's it. It's super-simple. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" To give is one of the greatest gifts one could ever receive. "

" 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 don't think I'm the world's greatest producer or songwriter or anything. "

" My number one goal is to take over the music business and run a really great record company. "

" 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. "

" My process of songwriting comes from a very real place: a place that when you watch 'American Idol' - God bless it, it's probably an awesome experience that these people are having, but it's not a real one. "

" I love Pink, and I love Christina Aguilera. Something about Christina always inspires me to do things that are really different. "

" 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 love just helping people; that's what I'm good at. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "