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" 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. "

Linda Perry

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

" A lot of people call me a 'machine,' and I don't think a lot of men or women operate the way I do. "

" 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. "

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

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" I'm extremely hard to work with. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "