Linda Perry

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

My number one goal is to take over the music business and run a really great record company.

For me, Heaven is evoking emotions through sound.

My family, they are definitely not an ordinary family.

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

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