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" 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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" 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. "

Linda Perry

Just

Know

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm overcritical, insensitive, and pushy when it comes to me. With everybody else, I'm a great listener, and all I want is for them to be happy. "

" 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

" 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 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.' "

Linda Perry

Want

Love

" 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? "

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

" In no way am I a spiritual person. I'm not some guru geek. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Music comes from inside. It's not a style. It's just passion. "

" One day, it hit me that music is my calling. I just started playing and writing music. How, I don't know. I just started doing it, and then this big voice came out of my mouth. And it felt like I was releasing something. "

" I don't ever get too literal. "

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

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

" 'American Idol' is a machine. It's a machine that's making a lot of money, that's selling a lot of product. It's 'American Marketing.' "

" My family, they are definitely not an ordinary family. "

" 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 told my mom I was gay when I was 16, and my mom said with her heavy Brazilian accent, 'OK, but at least look good at it.' "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

Linda Perry

Pink

Different