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" 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
Me
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" To give is one of the greatest gifts one could ever receive. "
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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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" My family, they are definitely not an ordinary family. "
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" 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. "
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Gay
Experience
Problem
" I don't think I could make a pop album. "
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Think
" If you're not confident, people push you around. That's it. It's super-simple. "
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People
" You need a big team to support a career. "
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" I want to be so giving and collaborative, but my best songs were written on my own. "
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Songs
Own
" I love writing songs, but I don't want to write the songs everyone else is asking me to write. "
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Love
" You kind of have to have no ego to be a producer and a songwriter. "
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Songwriter
Ego
Kind
" 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. "
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Music
Mother
Guitar
" 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. "
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Passion
You
Me
" 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. "
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Out
Best
Gift
" For me, Heaven is evoking emotions through sound. "
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Sound
Heaven
Emotions
" I'm just in tune to myself and what I need from the universe. "
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Tune
Universe
Just
" 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. "
Linda Perry
List
Without
Hope
" 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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Want
Music
Heart
" 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. "
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People
Music
Money
" 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. "
Linda Perry
Day
Writing
Voice
" 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. "
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Job
Gift
Love
" 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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Me
Just
Know
" 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.' "
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Want
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. "
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Change
Help
Vision
" I don't think I'm the world's greatest producer or songwriter or anything. "
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Producer
World
Think
" It's a humbling and amazing journey when you write a song in your bedroom, and you've got no money, and you're trying to write a song based on where you're at right at this moment. "
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Song
Money
Moment
" 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? "
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Want
Giving
I Can
" 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. "
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Money
Youth
City
" '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.' "
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American
Selling
Money
" 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. "
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Failure
Wonder
Want