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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Linda Perry

Music

Mother

Guitar

" 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 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. "

" 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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" '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.' "

" 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'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. "

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

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

" It'll never get old to hear a song that I wrote on the radio or to hear what someone experienced when they heard a song I wrote. "

" 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'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 was raised in a time when parents brought out belts, and you got tough love. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" It's not a 'sexy' position, being the producer. You have to be very bossy. You have to be very aggressive. "

" 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. "

" 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?' "

" 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