I'm able to switch gears at any moment.
'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.'
I'm a songwriter, an artist, and a musician. I do not have to try to be that; I just am.
I want to be a producer and not a songwriter.
I don't ever get too literal.
My family, they are definitely not an ordinary family.
I love writing songs, but I don't want to write the songs everyone else is asking me to write.
For me, Heaven is evoking emotions through sound.
Food is supposed to be vibrant, fresh, filled with color.
You kind of have to have no ego to be a producer and a songwriter.
I don't think I could make a pop album.
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.
I think women gravitate toward me because I am a woman producing and songwriting, and there's none out there. There really isn't.
I usually write songs in a guy key because my voice is so husky.
I didn't like being out in the limelight. I love performing, but that's it.
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.'
If you're not confident, people push you around. That's it. It's super-simple.
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.
There's nothing you could do to me, nothing you could take away from me that would make me feel like I wasn't going to be all right.
I love being home. I play with my dogs.
I'm just in tune to myself and what I need from the universe.
It's not a 'sexy' position, being the producer. You have to be very bossy. You have to be very aggressive.
I don't feel the need to be in the spotlight whatsoever.
People come to me to write songs that will be successful for them, and they allow me the freedom to do so.
I don't think I'm the world's greatest producer or songwriter or anything.
I'm not a children's songwriter. I'm not in that world.
Music comes from inside. It's not a style. It's just passion.
