Top 40 Linda Perry Quotes

Rock & roll doesn’t belong on a grid. It belongs on a pulse – a natural pulse.

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.’

One day, it hit me that music is my calling. I just started playing and writing music. How, I don’t know. I just started doing it, and then this big voice came out of my mouth. And it felt like I was releasing something.

I want to be a producer and not a songwriter.

If you want to be famous, you can.

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

I did love ‘What’s Up?’ but I hated the production.

I don’t want to be a rock star. I had my 15 minutes of fame.

It’s a humbling and amazing journey when you write a song in your bedroom, and you’ve got no money, and you’re trying to write a song based on where you’re at right at this moment.

I don’t think I could make a pop album.

I love just helping people; that’s what I’m good at.

A lot of people call me a ‘machine,’ and I don’t think a lot of men or women operate the way I do.

My family, they are definitely not an ordinary family.

The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center has this wonderful program where they take in the youth, feed them, help them learn how to cook, clean, they help them get jobs, help them learn how to save their money, and they have shelters all over the city.

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

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.

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’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 just in tune to myself and what I need from the universe.

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.

I want to show people my interpretation of what creating music is, and this is where it comes from: the heart.

I’m not a children’s songwriter. I’m not in that world.

I love being home. I play with my dogs.

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.

Rick Rubin’s amazing, by the way. I just need to say that.

You need a big team to support a career.

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

I usually write songs in a guy key because my voice is so husky.

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.’

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.

There’s a lot of artists that are celebrities, not really artists.

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.

I want to be so giving and collaborative, but my best songs were written on my own.

I’m able to switch gears at any moment.

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?’

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.

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.

I’m a songwriter, an artist, and a musician. I do not have to try to be that; I just am.

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.

I love Pink, and I love Christina Aguilera. Something about Christina always inspires me to do things that are really different.