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

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" 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?' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" My family, they are definitely not an ordinary family. "

" 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. "

" 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 extremely hard to work with. "

" 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 think women gravitate toward me because I am a woman producing and songwriting, and there's none out there. There really isn't. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People come to me to write songs that will be successful for them, and they allow me the freedom to do so. "

" 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'm not a children's songwriter. I'm not in that world. "

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

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

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

" '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.' "

" 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 great at working with people and collaborating. And if my biggest gift of all is that I'm really good at pulling things from people and helping them become better at what they're doing, I'm here, as I believe all of us are, to be of service. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "