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

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

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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. "

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

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

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

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

" I want to be so giving and collaborative, but my best songs were written on my own. "

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

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

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

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

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

" 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?' "

" I'm extremely hard to work with. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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