Linda Perry

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.

You need a big team to support a career.

I've lived out in a park sleeping on the grass with no place to go; I've not eaten. I've been there.

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

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'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.

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.

People come to me to write songs that will be successful for them, and they allow me the freedom to do so.

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.

If you want to be famous, you can.

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

I want to be a producer and not a songwriter.