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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. "

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" If you're not confident, people push you around. That's it. It's super-simple. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" I'm extremely hard to work with. "

" 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. "

" '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 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. "

" I did love 'What's Up?' but I hated the production. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" You kind of have to have no ego to be a producer and a songwriter. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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