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" 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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" I'm extremely hard to work with. "

" 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'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 nurture people's talents because, at the end of it, that's what they're left with. They're left with themselves. "

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

" I'm great at working with people and collaborating. And if my biggest gift of all is that I'm really good at pulling things from people and helping them become better at what they're doing, I'm here, as I believe all of us are, to be of service. "

" 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 usually write songs in a guy key because my voice is so husky. "

" 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'm able to switch gears at any moment. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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've lived out in a park sleeping on the grass with no place to go; I've not eaten. I've been there. "

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

" 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. "

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

" You create something in your bedroom or your house, and it's just a fun thing that you're doing. Then, all of a sudden, you hear that song that you started in your house, and it's on the radio. And people are now acknowledging it. It's just trippy. What a life. "

" 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?' "

" 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. "

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