Top 77 Katy Perry Quotes

I’m okay with having horrible lower teeth.

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.

My career is like an artichoke. People might think that the leaves are tasty and buttered up and delicious, and they don’t even know that there’s something magical hidden at the base of it. There’s a whole other side of me that people didn’t know existed.

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.

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.

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 have a second chance on life.

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?’

Find out what your gift is and nurture it.

I’ve done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.

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.

I pray for humility, honestly, because it’s very easy to be caught up in this world.

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’ve actually always wanted to make something like an acoustic record.

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.

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.

I am so grateful for all the love and support I’ve had from people around the world.

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

I just want to make it very clear that I come from very humble beginnings, and I worked for everything!

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.

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

My sister travels with me, and she‘s the person who keeps me in line, whether I like it or not. I trust her and also have a good, healthy fear of her.

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.

If you like my music, great, and if you don’t, whatever. I’m going to keep making it either way.

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’ve always been ambitious since I was nine years old and that was never going to change.

Sometimes if you want to achieve something great, there will be curveballs. You just have to dodge them every once in a while.

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. Because nobody relates to being perfect.

I have a lot of ambition.

My parents are Republicans, and I’m not.

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

I just feel like I have this gift that I’ve been given. It’s like, ‘Someone unwrap it! Here it is!’ That drive can’t be held down.

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.

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.

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

My personality is up and down, sassy and cheeky.

I don’t follow trends. I’m just not into what everyone else is wearing. I have my own look, which I call ‘Lolita Meets Old Hollywood Glam.’

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.

I’m a woman who likes to be courted – strongly.

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.

I’m not going to be everything to everyone.

I don’t believe in a heaven or a hell or an old man sitting on a throne. I believe in a higher power bigger than me because that keeps me accountable.

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.

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.

For a modern woman it is important to be supported and that there is equality in every aspect, and that it’s not two halves that make a whole – it’s two wholes that make a whole.

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

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.

I’m either going to go completely mental, completely bankrupt, or have the best success of my life.

I always knew I wanted a great man of God, someone who was going to be an inspiration for people and also be a lovely husband and father.

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.

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

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.

I’m on this extraordinary adventure, and if I have no one to talk to at the end of the night, I feel lonely.

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 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.

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 want to sell out arenas and sell millions of records.

I’m a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I’m a bad girl because I like to tease.

Ever since I was younger I wanted to be on stage, singing my songs in a glittering costume. And that happened and is still happening. I have to remember that this is what I wished for and be grateful because there are 500 other girls right behind me that are ready to snatch it up.

I can’t be the candy queen forever.

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

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.

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

I’m a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect.

I don’t have a Kate Moss body, but I’m very proud and happy with mine.

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

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

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 not defined by where I came from.

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 was a hop-around. I hung out with the rockabilly crew, the guys who were trying to be rappers, the funny kids.

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.

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.

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.