Katy Perry Quotes

My parents are very quirky, eccentric. They have their own world.

I'm okay with having bad dance moves.

Everybody wants to have a commentary on my life, like they are actually living it. Cool, comment all you want but I'm the one that's living it.

I just feel like I have this gift that I've been given. It's like, 'Someone unwrap it! Here it is!' That drive can't be held down.

I'm still driving along on the pop freeway of life. Thinking even further into the future, I definitely want to make an acoustic record. I want to try lots of different things.

A lot of the time people don't even know what they want until they see something new.

I am never usually taking myself too seriously and I think that people when they read stuff from me, they have to realise that I'm having fun.

I have a lot of ambition.

I fall in love every time. And I don't really fall in love a lot, but when I do, I fall hard.

Using blasphemy as entertainment is as cheap as a comedian telling a fart joke.

Comparisons are easily done, once you've had a taste of perfection

I had no clue they would fall into my armpits eventually.

Boom, boom, boom,
Even brighter than the moon, moon, moon,
It's always been inside of you, you, you
And now it's time to let it through, ooh, ooh.
Cause, baby, you're a firework
Come on, show 'em what you're worth
Make 'em go, "Oh! Oh! Oh!"
As you shoot across the sky-y-y.
Baby, you're a firework
Come on, let your colors burst
Make 'em go, "Oh! Oh! Oh!"
You're gonna leave 'em fallin' down-own-own.

I've done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.

I think you become more relatable when you're vulnerable.

I think that a lot of teenagers think they got it all down-pat. Especially when they first move out and they're on their own for the first time. Oh this is easy, this is breezy. Then all of a sudden it hits you in your mid-twenties that maybe you don't know how to do your taxes still. There's all kinds of things and you start calling your parents up again.

All women are created equal Then some become marines.

I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that's all you've got, it's just boring. Everything I write, whether it's happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it.

When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view.

I grew up listening to gospel. That was the only thing that I had reference to because that was what my family was involved with.

You could travel the world, but nothing comes close to the golden coast. Once you party with us, you'll be falling in love, Oooooh Oh Oooooh!

I'm just singing about my own life. Singing about all the little stories in my life and the things I've been through.

The first songs I wrote were catchy, but the subject matter was God.

I've always been ambitious since I was nine years old and that was never going to change.

I came from a lot of intolerance and prejudice, which aren't necessarily healthy to evolve as a human.

I was never really attached to a clique, and I wanted to be in all the different groups; I was never a one-group kind of person. I think that's still part of my personality today.

If people want a role model, they can have Miley Cyrus.

I'm okay if everything is honest and truthful and relatable. If it's fabricated and ill-motived, it's not good.

I think that parents grow up with an idea of what they want their kids to be like - and then their kids grow up to be people of themselves, of their own.

Honey, I am the chief of my train. If critics want to hop on board, fantastic. There's plenty of room. The KP train is fun.

You held me down, but I got up
Hey!
Alrighty brushing off the dust
You hear my voice
You hear that sound
Like thunder gonna shake the ground
-Roar

I wasn't going to great schools, because my parents didn't believe in public education. They wanted the education to be influenced by their religion, so I was going to these halfway education-slash-Christian schools that were like pop-up shop-style education.

The records are black boxes for me. Like, if you want to know who I am, my views, my perspective, things I love, things I hate, my convictions, my anthems. I've never let people's opinions affect the way I write.

My religious upbringing was comically strict - even the Dirt Devil vacuum cleaner was banned. In our house, no one was allowed to refer to deviled eggs. We had to call them angelic eggs. We were never allowed to swear. I'd get into trouble just for saying 'Hell no'. If you dropped a hammer on your toe in our house you had to say something like 'Jiminy Christmas'. The only music we were allowed to listen to was gospel. No wonder I rebelled.

Hollywood is so fake and people need to realize that people are just people, and you, too, don't need to be born into something or have money or have whatever product someone is hawking on you.

Talking about the future, like we had a clue. Never plans that one day, I'd be losing you

I think we're all blessed with gifts and I was lucky I just found out what mine was early on and have planted that seed and tried to water it every day.

Kids are so smart these days. They sense when there's a phony bologna out there. Especially in music, when they see something that's being marketed to them, they'll call it out. They'll be like, "This chick is bullshit."

I'm not defined by where I came from.

Not to sound overly cheesy but I really appreciate the freedom we have in America - especially as a female.

You don't have to feel like a waste of space, your original can not be replaced

Ever since I was younger I wanted to be on stage, singing my songs in a glittering costume. And that happened and is still happening. I have to remember that this is what I wished for and be grateful because there are 500 other girls right behind me that are ready to snatch it up.

I have always been the kid who's asked 'Why?' In my faith, you're just supposed to have faith. But I was always like 'why?'

Be yourself, that's what makes the world go round!

I'm okay with having horrible lower teeth.

I'm kind of a more sunshiny person myself.

People love the idea of a good girl gone bad, thinking that my parents were so strict and disowned me, but that actually wasn't the case. Even though they don't necessarily agree with some of the things I do, they love me as their daughter. That's always been their perspective.

I'm like a fatter version of Amy Winehouse and a skinnier version of Lily Allen.

I just feel like I'm going to be criticized regardless of what I do next, so I might as well do something that I feel really passionate about.

I'm really happy to be on the cover as a strong female who has created her own career.

You are a fan of Katy Perry you want her heart you want her soul you love her songs you like her moves she may be a kinda a slut but you still love any way you you dream you laugh you like her songs and you dance-but all you gotta do is have a Teenage Dream.

You can't be a full tranny every day of the week that's an exaggerated part of my personality.

I'm okay with having bad dance moves. I'm okay with having horrible lower teeth. That's what makes me me, and for some reason it's worked out all right.

I have a soft spot for women, I'm not afraid of it, some women walk into the room, and they're so beautiful and you're like, 'I wanna smell you' you know?

I hate working out, but I love jumping rope. Theres a rhythm. It's like dancing.

So take a chance and don't ever look back.

You can get through it and you can land on your feet triumphantly and strong.

Even if you actually have the good intent to do something creative or special with your life, it's hard. I mean, look at the number of people who actually get the opportunity.

Recycle those nerves and make them adreneline.

The media, is media. You always have to take the media with a grain of salt. You can't believe everything you read.

I always knew I wanted a great man of God, someone who was going to be an inspiration for people and also be a lovely husband and father.

I went from zero to my own hero

I just changed as a person and have always been changing constantly from fifteen to twenty-three.

What I wanted to be and who I am is a singer and a songwriter. I wanted to be onstage, and I wanted the world to hear my music. The product of that is fame and the disgusting celebrity that goes along with it. But celebrity does not equal creativity.

I think that you should definitely listen to what people say, because everyone says it: High school is not the real world.

I like to go out there looking like a strong woman, because I am strong. But I am also a woman who goes through all kinds of problems and highs and lows.

I've actually always wanted to make something like an acoustic record.

Im a good girl at heart who just wants to have fun.

I'm not Buddhist, I'm not Hindu, I'm not Christian, but I still feel like I have a deep connection with God,

I was like, I don't know if I can hold that promise [to wait until marriage to have sex] because this guy at camp is really cute. Sex wasn't talked about in my home, but I was a very curious young girl.

For me especially, I always have a very cheery disposition and that's how I've always come off. So I forget that doesn't really allow me to have a bad mood.

I really wanted to call this album Teenage Wet Dream.

I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation.

I get a lot of the ideas when I'm resting - either when I'm meditating or getting some kind of work done on my back, like physical therapy or acupuncture. That's where I get my best ideas, maybe because I'm balancing my body.

The press is just not your friend when it comes to a marriage. That's why we didn't sell the pictures of our wedding, and we got offered millions of dollars for them, millions.

I believe in a lot of astrology. I believe in aliens ... I look up into the stars and I imagine: 'How self-important are we to think that we are the only life-form?'

I like a good boy, but sometimes you get bored.

If you like my music, great, and if you don't, whatever. I'm going to keep making it either way.

This is the part of me that you're never gonna ever take away from me.

I want to sell out arenas and sell millions of records.

In another life, I would be your belle

Honesty has always worked for me.

Maybe I'm competitive. I just feel like I have this gift that I've been given. It's like, "Someone unwrap it! Here it is!" That drive can't be held down. I have a lot of ambition.

I don't believe in a heaven or a hell or an old man sitting on a throne. I believe in a higher power bigger than me because that keeps me accountable.

I unfortunately still crave chicken McNuggets and bacon, which is the meat candy of the world.

My career is like an artichoke. People might think that the leaves are tasty and buttered up and delicious, and they don't even know that there's something magical hidden at the base of it. There's a whole other side of me that people didn't know existed.

My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn't want to ruin their happiness - even if that happiness is ignorance.

My sister travels with me, and she's the person who keeps me in line, whether I like it or not. I trust her and also have a good, healthy fear of her.

My parents were strict, but it was the world I lived in. I had no idea there was a world outside.

We're technology obsessed. I think it's easier to text than to actually say hi to someone.

I don't want to completely self-sabotage everything that I've got and alienate everyone. But I definitely want to take some chances as I always have.

I'm happy, I'm in a good place, I'm looking forward to my future.

I'm kinda saving myself for Miley Cyrus.

I will love you unconditionally .

I love the Seahawks because of Russell [Wilson] and I think that I'm going to probably go for them!

I have a confidence because my research shows that I should just really trust my instincts.

I can feel a phoenix inside of me. I can see the heavens but I still hear the flames calling out my name.

Unfortunately, I think a lot of people are affected more by the idea of fame than the actual work ethic involved. A lot of them just want to be reality TV-type people who don't do anything.

I'm a woman who likes to be courted - strongly.

I have a soft spot for musicians. If a man could ride this roller coaster with me and come out alive, then I guess we'd deserve each other's company.