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" 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. "

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

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

" 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 extremely hard to work with. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 don't ever get too literal. "

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

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

" 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.' "

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

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

" 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. "

" '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.' "

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

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

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

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

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

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