Quotes from Linda Perry

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.'

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

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.

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.

I nurture people's talents because, at the end of it, that's what they're left with. They're left with themselves.

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

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'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.

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 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.

It's not a 'sexy' position, being the producer. You have to be very bossy. You have to be very aggressive.

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.

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'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.

Rock & roll doesn't belong on a grid. It belongs on a pulse - a natural pulse.

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.