Linda Perry Quotes
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In no way am I a spiritual person. I'm not some guru geek.
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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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I'm just in tune to myself and what I need from the universe.
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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 love just helping people; that's what I'm good at.
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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.
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I'm extremely hard to work with.
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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.
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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.
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My family, they are definitely not an ordinary family.
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I don't ever get too literal.
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I've lived out in a park sleeping on the grass with no place to go; I've not eaten. I've been there.
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Rock & roll doesn't belong on a grid. It belongs on a pulse - a natural pulse.
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I'm not a children's songwriter. I'm not in that world.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's not a 'sexy' position, being the producer. You have to be very bossy. You have to be very aggressive.
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I don't think I could make a pop album.
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I want to be so giving and collaborative, but my best songs were written on my own.
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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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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?'
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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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If you're not confident, people push you around. That's it. It's super-simple.