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" I'm extremely hard to work with. "
Linda Perry
Hard
Extremely
Work
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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. "
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" I love writing songs, but I don't want to write the songs everyone else is asking me to write. "
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" There's a lot of artists that are celebrities, not really artists. "
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" I don't read music. I refuse to learn how to do that. I barely know half the chords I'm playing. I like being naive when it comes to that. "
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Music
Learn
Naive
" You kind of have to have no ego to be a producer and a songwriter. "
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Ego
Kind
" My number one goal is to take over the music business and run a really great record company. "
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Music
Run
Over
" 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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" In no way am I a spiritual person. I'm not some guru geek. "
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Person
Way
Spiritual
" I'm not a children's songwriter. I'm not in that world. "
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Songwriter
World
Children
" I've lived out in a park sleeping on the grass with no place to go; I've not eaten. I've been there. "
Linda Perry
Lived
Sleeping
Grass
" 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
" I want to show people my interpretation of what creating music is, and this is where it comes from: the heart. "
Linda Perry
Want
Music
Heart
" I don't feel the need to be in the spotlight whatsoever. "
Linda Perry
Spotlight
Need
Whatsoever
" You need a big team to support a career. "
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Big
Career
Need
" To give is one of the greatest gifts one could ever receive. "
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Greatest
Receive
Give
" I don't think I could make a pop album. "
Linda Perry
Album
Pop
Think
" I nurture people's talents because, at the end of it, that's what they're left with. They're left with themselves. "
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Nurture
Left
End
" 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. "
Linda Perry
Gay
Experience
Problem
" 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. "
Linda Perry
Back
Writing
Myself
" I did love 'What's Up?' but I hated the production. "
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Hated
Did
Up
" I feel that when I listen to music - not that it's bad - it's not emotional. It has a gimmick to it. It's selling something: the artist, the producer, something. The emotional capacity is very small, for the listener as well. "
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Small
Artist
Bad
" 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
" 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'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. "
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Great
People
Gift
" 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
" Music comes from inside. It's not a style. It's just passion. "
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Style
Passion
Music
" 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. "
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God
Line
Right
" I was raised in a time when parents brought out belts, and you got tough love. "
Linda Perry
You
Love
Time
" 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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Me
Want
Love