Quotes By Katy Perry

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 don't want to be above my audience; I want to be one with my audience.

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.

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

I'm every woman. It takes a village to make me who I am.

I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.

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

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 got a fantastic person to work me out and get me into really good shape.

I think it's great to dress up and play on all the girly features.

I'm really critical of my posture, it makes a big difference. And I try to suck my belly in. Everyone should do that whether you're on a red carpet or not. Even if you're just going out to dinner with your boyfriend you should try and suck it in.

There are times I go out and meet people and flirt, but it's not really appropriate to have anything serious.

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.

With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them.

I just like having fun.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

Honesty has always worked for me.

The media tried to destroy my parents and has taken things completely out of context, but there's not a whole lot you can do in terms of fighting back. You have to hope that it passes, which it always does. But they have to be careful. They didn't necessarily sign up for this.

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.

I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.

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 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.

I'm kind of a more sunshiny person myself.

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

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.