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" 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. "

Linda Perry

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" 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

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

" 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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" I want to be a producer and not a songwriter. "

" 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. "

Linda Perry

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" I love writing songs, but I don't want to write the songs everyone else is asking me to write. "

Linda Perry

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

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

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

" 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

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" 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 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. "

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

" 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?' "

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

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

" If you want to be famous, you can. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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