Katy Perry Quotes

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

Thank you for believing in my weirdness!

Im a good girl at heart who just wants to have fun.

I just like having fun.

I've just always been very aware and careful of everything, so that I can be ready for the perfect opportunities as they come. I don't take anything for granted or wait for anything to come to me.

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

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

Like my freedom. If I feel like I'm being controlled, I get crazy. Because I know I made it this far by following my intuition. I think people like who I am, and I like who I am, and I want to be a better version of myself every single day. So stop controlling me!

I am a gay activist and I say that proudly. I voted no on Prop 8.

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

Cause in you're eyes, I'd like to stay

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'm kinda saving myself for Miley Cyrus.

I wish that I was looking into your eyes

When I kissed a girl, nobody was around. So I didn't do it for anybody. I'm not a lesbian. I encourage anybody to try anything, just make sure you have integrity and character. It doesn't matter who anyone loves. I am for gay rights and I also have a boyfriend.

I can feel a phoenix inside of me. I can see the heavens but I still hear the flames calling out my name.

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.

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 a pop girl! And I'm on a major label. I enjoy singing pop songs.

I think that you should definitely listen to what people say, because everyone says it: High school is not the real world.

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

You change your mind Like a girl changes clothes

In another life, I would be your girl, we keep all our promises, the us against the world, In another life, I would make you stay, So I don't have to say you were the one that got away the one that got away

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

I sacrifice in my love life and my social life, but those things will be there in three or four years. This is a really important time in my life. I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.

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.

Honesty has always worked for me.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Using blasphemy as entertainment is as cheap as a comedian telling a fart joke.

You don't have to feel like a waste of space, your original can not be replaced

How do I get better once I've had the best?

Last Friday night; Yeah we danced on tabletops. And we took too many shots. Think we kissed, but I forgot?

My style icons were Gwen Stefani, when she was in No Doubt, and then Shirley Manson in Garbage.

I think that a lot of teenagers think they got it all down-pat. Especially when they first move out and they're on their own for the first time. Oh this is easy, this is breezy. Then all of a sudden it hits you in your mid-twenties that maybe you don't know how to do your taxes still. There's all kinds of things and you start calling your parents up again.

I crushed on the most popular guy in school! I saw him at a concert and I shouted out," Is that Shane Lopes? You were the most popular guy in my class, but you never wanted to go out with me. Instead it was Amanda Wayne. What are you thinking now?

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.

I feel really blessed because of where I come from.

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 didn't come here to run for President. I really just came here to play rock and roll.

I really wanted to call this album Teenage Wet Dream.

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

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

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