Top 305 Quotes & Sayings by Katy Perry - Page 3

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

I don't take anything for granted. There are 500 other girls right behind me. And I know that, because I was one of them.

I'm competitive with myself, and that goes hand in hand with how I present myself. I'm not only trying to put one foot in front of the other, I'm trying to put my best foot forward.

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

My parents are Republicans, and I'm not.

When I was younger, I used to be a part of the surfing-and-skateboarding community.

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

I have a lot of ambition.

I was raised in a super-sheltered atmosphere where we didn't watch anything besides Trinity Broadcasting Network - which was called TBN - or the Fox News channel.

Oh, I will always be honest with my music. 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.

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.

I love hearing my song on the radio the first time, but when it comes on again, I change the station. I already have so much of the spotlight on me. I don't need any more.

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.

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.

I live a rock-star kind of life where I don't go to bed until 4 A.M. I'm very nocturnal.

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.

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.

People don't understand that I have a great relationship with my parents - like, how that can exist. There isn't any judgment. They don't necessarily agree with everything I do, but I don't necessarily agree with everything they do.

I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.

I came from a different mind-set growing up, and my mind has changed.

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.

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.

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.

You know you're living right when you wake up, brush your hair - and confetti falls out!

Sometimes I can be distracted by the glamour and the fabulousness.

I'd go to the farmers' market in Santa Barbara, and I'd put out my guitar case, and I'd test out these little ditty songs that I would write, and I would get a couple of avocados, a bag of pistachios, and, like, fifteen bucks. That was a lot of money for me.

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.

You look at someone like Beyonce singing 'Single Ladies,' when we all know she's married. Some of it is just for entertainment.

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.

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.

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.

Everyone related to me in my circle was from church: church friends, church school, church activities. All my friends weren't allowed to watch MTV or go to PG-13 movies or listen to the radio, so I didn't really know anything different. That's how I was raised.

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

You never know what's actually going on in a person's life. You don't know what happened to them before you met them...and that's why they are the way they are. But I do think about it whenever I get in contact with my fans. I know this may be the only time they'll ever meet me. I try to take advantage of that moment and be kind and grateful.

It can be the most difficult thing to do, but love conquers fear and love conquers hate and this love that you choose will give you strength and it's our greatest power.

I think when you put sex and spirituality in the same bottle and shake it up, bad things happen.

There's a spark in you you've just gotta ignite the light and let it SHINE.

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

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

Throw your stick and stones, throw your bombs and your blows, but you're not gonna break my soul.

I went from zero to my own hero

Be yourself & you can be anything.

I think you can have it all, you just have to work really hard because great things don't come easily.

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

Don't care what people gonna think of you, do what you wanna do and seek just your happiness.

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.

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

I am not a feminist, but I do believe in the strength of women.

I love what I do, and when I don't love what I do, I'll make a change...I can't be the candy queen forever.

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

Thank you for believing in my weirdness!

If you have a dream you gotta go on a journey to fulfill that dream.

Acceptance is the key to be truly free.

After a hurricane, comes a rainbow.

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

Maybe a reason why all the doors are closed So you can open one that leads you to the perfect road.

I believe that I will be loved again, in the right way. I know I'm worth it.

If you can believe in something great, then you can achieve something great.

Recycle those nerves and make them adreneline.

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