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" 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. "

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Linda Perry

Pink

Different

" Rick Rubin's amazing, by the way. I just need to say that. "

" '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.' "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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'm extremely hard to work with. "

" I've lived out in a park sleeping on the grass with no place to go; I've not eaten. I've been there. "

" 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. "

" I love just helping people; that's what I'm good at. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" To give is one of the greatest gifts one could ever receive. "

" 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

" 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'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 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. "

" 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 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.' "

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

" I love being home. I play with my dogs. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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