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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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Linda Perry

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Money

Moment

" 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'm extremely hard to work with. "

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

" Food is supposed to be vibrant, fresh, filled with color. "

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

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

" I don't feel the need to be in the spotlight whatsoever. "

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

Linda Perry

Pink

Different

" 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. "

" 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. "

" One day, it hit me that music is my calling. I just started playing and writing music. How, I don't know. I just started doing it, and then this big voice came out of my mouth. And it felt like I was releasing something. "

" 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. "

" '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.' "

" 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

" I'm just in tune to myself and what I need from the universe. "

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

" I don't want to be a rock star. I had my 15 minutes of fame. "

" 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 didn't like being out in the limelight. I love performing, but that's it. "

Linda Perry

Out

Love

" Pink is an extremely secure person. She knows who she is. When she's going to make a change, she's going to make the change. She just needs someone to help her with the vision. "

" 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. "

" You need a big team to support a career. "

" There's a lot of artists that are celebrities, not really artists. "

" I don't think I could make a pop album. "

" The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center has this wonderful program where they take in the youth, feed them, help them learn how to cook, clean, they help them get jobs, help them learn how to save their money, and they have shelters all over the city. "

" 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'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. "