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" 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.' "

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" I want to be a producer and not a songwriter. "

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

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

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

" '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.' "

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

" Music comes from inside. It's not a style. It's just passion. "

" I don't ever get too literal. "

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

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

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

" Sometimes I'll look back at old pictures where I'm a little heavy and dressed funny and think, 'How did I get chicks all the time?' "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" I was raised in a time when parents brought out belts, and you got tough love. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

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

" 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. "