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" 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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" 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 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. "

" 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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I'm a songwriter, an artist, and a musician. I do not have to try to be that; I just am. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I'm a fast learner, and I believe in change, and I believe in growing, and I believe in moving forward and not staying in the same place. "

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

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

Linda Perry

Out

Love

" 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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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

" My number one goal is to take over the music business and run a really great record company. "

" The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center has this wonderful program where they take in the youth, feed them, help them learn how to cook, clean, they help them get jobs, help them learn how to save their money, and they have shelters all over the city. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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