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" 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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" 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. "

Linda Perry

Hear

Song

Radio

" 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 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. "

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

" 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 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 extremely hard to work with. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I didn't like being out in the limelight. I love performing, but that's it. "

Linda Perry

Out

Love

" 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?' "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" '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.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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 a producer and not a songwriter. "

" I don't care if I go broke. I don't care about all that stuff. I just want to know that I did everything I wanted to do. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Linda Perry

Passion

You

" 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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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