Katy Perry Quotes
My job is for the people. It's for the public. It's for their consumption. So I've done a lot in that way, and I see that the hard work has finally paid off.
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 always tell my fans that are closest to me, if it's not coming from my mouth, my website, or my appointed person, then it's generally not true. Or it's an exaggeration.
We're technology obsessed. I think it's easier to text than to actually say hi to someone.
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'm scared. I'm excited. I'm ready for whatever happens but I think that fame is what comes along with the territory when you open yourself up and become this story, this book for anyone to read.
I think Rihanna always looks so fresh and I'm like, "How do you do that? We all know how much pot you smoke!"
Many people think I try to be like Lady Gaga but what they don't know is that I'm a Britney Spears wanna be.
You can't be a full tranny every day of the week that's an exaggerated part of my personality.
My singing is really important to me, but when children come along they'll be my main focus. I'd never put my career in front of my babies - it'd be a case of fitting jobs around them.
At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating.
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.
I've always been ambitious since I was nine years old and that was never going to change.
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.
When I first started out, I was really attracted to having my own sense of style because I started swing dancing, lindy hop, and jitterbug.
There are times I go out and meet people and flirt, but it's not really appropriate to have anything serious.
Touring is always important to me. It's like a big IOU to my fans, because I know they are the reason I exist.
You look at someone like Beyoncé singing Single Ladies, when we all know she's married. Some of it is just for entertainment.
I still want to make a pop record. I want to make a more sonically current pop record. I maybe want to make people move a little bit more.
Talking about the future, like we had a clue. Never plans that one day, I'd be losing you
And I know, There is nothing that I would not do for you, Forever be true, And I know, Although times can be hard We will see it through, I'm forever in love with you.
I really love going to shows where I'm sandwiched between people, and you don't know if the sweat on you is yours or the person's next to you.
Speaking in tongues is as normal to me as 'Pass the salt' It's a secret, direct prayer language to God.
You think I'm pretty Without any make-up on You think I'm funny When I tell the punch line wrong I know you get me So I'll let my walls come down, down.
I still want to be as approachable and relatable as possible - when I meet fans and they're crying, I'll say, 'Calm down, there's nothing to cry about.'
I'm not coming out trying to prove anything to anyone, like, 'Oh, I'm in assless chaps!' or 'I can't be tamed!' I've already been through that phase. I started at 23, you know?
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.
But of course I love my Japanese fans and the show must go on, no matter the daily aftershocks or husband kidnappings! It's not right but it's okay