Linda Perry

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.

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

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.

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'm able to switch gears at any moment.

Record companies don't think creatively about what something could possibly be because they are not filled with creative people. Nobody's looking at the future of music because they're concentrating so hard on what they can get from it right this second. It's really hard to see an artist; it's a lot easier to see money.

I'm extremely hard to work with.

I have to meet everybody I work with before I work with them. Before I say yes, I have to meet them, and then I take it from there. I don't care if you've had the best record or the worst. That doesn't matter to me. I don't care about that stuff.

American Idol' is a machine. It's a machine that's making a lot of money, that's selling a lot of product. It's 'American Marketing.'

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