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.
— Linda Perry
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.
Music comes from inside. It's not a style. It's just passion.
I want to show people my interpretation of what creating music is, and this is where it comes from: the heart.
I told my mom I was gay when I was 16, and my mom said with her heavy Brazilian accent, 'OK, but at least look good at it.'
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 usually write songs in a guy key because my voice is so husky.
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.
I'm able to switch gears at any moment.
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.
I don't want to be a rock star. I had my 15 minutes of fame.
Pink is an extremely secure person. She knows who she is. When she's going to make a change, she's going to make the change. She just needs someone to help her with the vision.
I did love 'What's Up?' but I hated the production.
I don't think I'm the world's greatest producer or songwriter or anything.
My number one goal is to take over the music business and run a really great record company.
I think women gravitate toward me because I am a woman producing and songwriting, and there's none out there. There really isn't.
I don't think I could make a pop album.
Food is supposed to be vibrant, fresh, filled with color.
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.
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 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 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 nurture people's talents because, at the end of it, that's what they're left with. They're left with themselves.
I didn't like being out in the limelight. I love performing, but that's it.
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.
You kind of have to have no ego to be a producer and a songwriter.
For me, Heaven is evoking emotions through sound.
