Quotes from Linda Perry

You kind of have to have no ego to be a producer and a songwriter.

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

I think women gravitate toward me because I am a woman producing and songwriting, and there's none out there. There really isn't.

My process of songwriting comes from a very real place: a place that when you watch 'American Idol' - God bless it, it's probably an awesome experience that these people are having, but it's not a real one.

In no way am I a spiritual person. I'm not some guru geek.

To me, I feel like everything I touch will do good. Because my heart and my passion is all in the right spot. And you can't go wrong with that. But maybe I'm naive.

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.

I've had many songs where I've gone, 'Oh, my God, this song is going to be huge!' but it wasn't the right artist, or something just didn't happen. It didn't make the song any worse. It just didn't line up. That does happen.

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.'

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.

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.

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 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.

Food is supposed to be vibrant, fresh, filled with color.

I love being home. I play with my dogs.

I love writing songs, but I don't want to write the songs everyone else is asking me to write.

I didn't like being out in the limelight. I love performing, but that's it.

I don't ever get too literal.