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A lot of people call me a 'machine,' and I don't think a lot of men or women operate the way I do.
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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 love just helping people; that's what I'm good at.
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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'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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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'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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I'm extremely hard to work with.
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My family, they are definitely not an ordinary family.
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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'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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Food is supposed to be vibrant, fresh, filled with color.
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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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You kind of have to have no ego to be a producer and a songwriter.
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For me, Heaven is evoking emotions through sound.
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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.
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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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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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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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Rock & roll doesn't belong on a grid. It belongs on a pulse - a natural pulse.
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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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I nurture people's talents because, at the end of it, that's what they're left with. They're left with themselves.
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If you're not confident, people push you around. That's it. It's super-simple.
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