3 December 2020 Katy Perry I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation. And my conversation with God is very open-ended. I pray for humility, honestly, because it’s very easy to be caught up in this world.
3 December 2020 Katy Perry I’m either going to go completely mental, completely bankrupt, or have the best success of my life.
3 December 2020 Katy Perry I’m not defined by where I came from. I never took part in the rules and hatred that sometimes go along with religion. But if my parents are happy with what they believe, then I’m happy to stay out of their way. We agree to disagree.
3 December 2020 Katy Perry I was a hop-around. I hung out with the rockabilly crew, the guys who were trying to be rappers, the funny kids.
3 December 2020 Katy Perry 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.
3 December 2020 Katy Perry Not to sound overly cheesy but I really appreciate the freedom we have in America – especially as a female.
3 December 2020 Katy Perry I’ve always been ambitious since I was nine years old and that was never going to change.
3 December 2020 Katy Perry I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don’t try to change them anymore, and I don’t think they try to change me.
3 December 2020 Katy Perry I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I’ll pull that ’80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings.
3 December 2020 Katy Perry My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you’re 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere.
3 December 2020 Katy Perry I grew up not really having anything, so the idea that I can take care of my family and my friends now is a really cool bonus.
3 December 2020 Katy Perry Santa Barbara is my hood. I mean, it’s not much of a hood, but it is definitely like my hood. I claim Santa Barbara like I claim my family. I’m going to be married and buried there.
3 December 2020 Katy Perry 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.
3 December 2020 Katy Perry You have to spend a lot to make a lot. It’s not like I’m sitting on top of a pile of money.
3 December 2020 Katy Perry It was so draining. Going to parties to rub elbows with so-and-so and act like it’s no big deal, when really all I was doing was hoping I’d have the success they had.
3 December 2020 Katy Perry I sacrifice in my love life and my social life, but those things will be there in three or four years. This is a really important time in my life. I can’t just be the girl who sang ‘I Kissed a Girl.’ I have to leave a legacy.
3 December 2020 Katy Perry 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.
3 December 2020 Katy Perry 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.
3 December 2020 Katy Perry I don’t care what people say about my relationship I don’t care what they say about my boobs. People are buying my songs I have a sold-out tour. I’m getting incredible feedback from my music.
3 December 2020 Katy Perry I’ll continue to try and balance like a circus act. And I will just fight to always tell the truth. Even if it’s difficult.
3 December 2020 Katy Perry 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.
3 December 2020 Katy Perry There are a lot of things that are personally uncomfortable to show, especially me without makeup and completely bloated or crying. But I’ve realized that it’s time for me to show my audience that you don’t have to be perfect to achieve your dreams.
3 December 2020 Katy Perry If you like my music, great, and if you don’t, whatever. I’m going to keep making it either way.
3 December 2020 Katy Perry One thing I can’t do, and I hope that there are other people out there that feel the same way, is climb a rope. Oh my gosh, it’s so hard to climb rope! It’s all about grip and arms.
3 December 2020 Katy Perry 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.
3 December 2020 Katy Perry I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don’t try to change them anymore, and I don’t think they try to change me. We agree to disagree.
