Katy Perry Quotes

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

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.

Now it's clear to me/ that everything you see/ ain't always what it seems.

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

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

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 have multipersonality disorder - in a very good way, of course - when it comes to my fashion choices.

I just wanna throw my phone away and find out who is really there for me

Find out what your gift is and nurture it.

I got this Jesus tattoo on my wrist when I was 18 because I know that it's always going to be a part of me. When I'm playing, it's staring right back at me, saying, 'Remember where you came from.'

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I'm going to let love lead the way, always. And I was born with this blind - blind ambition, and it's kind of gotten me here to this point. And I think that I'll stick to it.

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.

People don't want just vanilla. They want 31 flavors. I couldn't do what Rihanna does. I couldn't do what Gaga does. They can't do what I do.

I wanted it to be like Amy Grant, but it didn't pan out that way. My label actually went bankrupt, and I was left without a home.

I have a second chance on life.

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

My mother is very emotional as well, but my dad is more of the guts of the family. He was the main preacher, so he kind of had this little Pentecostal flair, but they are born-again.

You have to spend a lot to make a lot. It's not like I'm sitting on top of a pile of money.

I can assure you, nothing in my performance will be deflated

I love those documentaries where everyone is fabulous and always perfect.

I just have so much love for my record label.

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

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

I was, like, just eating Flamin' Hot Cheetos and drinking, and that's it.

I did a lot of thrift and vintage. I would mix those pieces into some of the more inexpensive items from Express, Gap, Old Navy, and Clothestime.

NEW YORK! I [love] U! You're OFFICIALLY the coolest place on the planet!

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?

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.

Be yourself and you can be anything.

I can't be the candy queen forever.

Fame is, I think, just a disgusting by-product of what I do.

You said move on, where do I go?

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.

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.

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

In another life, I would be your belle

I've lived such a great, fantastic life already, but there's still so much more.

In another life, I would be your girl. Capable of making promises. We would rule the world.

No regrets, just love. We can dance until we die. You and I, we'll be young forever!

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

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.

I have to be a ginger for 3 weeks.

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