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" You kind of have to have no ego to be a producer and a songwriter. "
Linda Perry
Songwriter
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm a fast learner, and I believe in change, and I believe in growing, and I believe in moving forward and not staying in the same place. "
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" In no way am I a spiritual person. I'm not some guru geek. "
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" 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. "
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" '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.' "
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" I want to be a producer and not a songwriter. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't ever get too literal. "
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" I love writing songs, but I don't want to write the songs everyone else is asking me to write. "
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" I don't feel the need to be in the spotlight whatsoever. "
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" I didn't like being out in the limelight. I love performing, but that's it. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I love Pink, and I love Christina Aguilera. Something about Christina always inspires me to do things that are really different. "
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" People come to me to write songs that will be successful for them, and they allow me the freedom to do so. "
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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. "
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" I think women gravitate toward me because I am a woman producing and songwriting, and there's none out there. There really isn't. "
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