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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. "

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" I did love 'What's Up?' but I hated the production. "

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" 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. "

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" I don't ever get too literal. "

" 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. "

" I want to be perceived - or maybe I perceive myself - as this really easygoing, honest person that's just giving. Realistically, I have those qualities, but I'm very aggressive. I can be very harsh. It comes off almost mean, you know? "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

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

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

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Women

Woman

" A lot of people call me a 'machine,' and I don't think a lot of men or women operate the way I do. "

" Record companies don't think creatively about what something could possibly be because they are not filled with creative people. Nobody's looking at the future of music because they're concentrating so hard on what they can get from it right this second. It's really hard to see an artist; it's a lot easier to see money. "

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

" You kind of have to have no ego to be a producer and a songwriter. "

" 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'm extremely hard to work with. "

" 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'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. "

" It's not a 'sexy' position, being the producer. You have to be very bossy. You have to be very aggressive. "

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

" I love writing songs, but I don't want to write the songs everyone else is asking me to write. "

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" For me, to have had an impact with anything that you've done, whether it's a painting, a photo, a poem, or something that you've created, just that experience is enormous. You don't get that all the time. "

" Rick Rubin's amazing, by the way. I just need to say that. "