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" 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. "

Linda Perry

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Money

Moment

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" There's nothing you could do to me, nothing you could take away from me that would make me feel like I wasn't going to be all right. "

Linda Perry

You

Feel

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" We're married. We are one now. There's no running away. We have to deal with things together and figure them out, and that's the greatest gift. I'm in it. People ask me, 'How do you maintain a relationship?' I don't know, but all I do know is that I chose Sara to be the one, and when I choose something, that's all that matters, and I'm totally in. "

Linda Perry

Gift

People

" 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. "

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

" 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 don't think I'm the world's greatest producer or songwriter or anything. "

" I don't ever get too literal. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People come to me to write songs that will be successful for them, and they allow me the freedom to do so. "

Linda Perry

People

Successful

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

" I was scared of failure, of being a one-hit wonder, never being able to write another song again, never being able to sing again. Maybe everything that I think I am and who I want to be never will happen. "

" I want to show people my interpretation of what creating music is, and this is where it comes from: the heart. "

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

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

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

Linda Perry

Women

Woman