I was really sick and I walked outside of the bus and realised; oh no I'm not allowed to be sick. I'm not allowed to say; sorry no I can't pose with you for a photo because I'm sick. I am a super human now, or I have to be one.
Katy PerryI'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.
Katy PerryI'm definitely not trying to be, or am, a poster child for anything so structured. But I do have my own personal faith most definitely.
Katy PerryFor me especially, I always have a very cheery disposition and that's how I've always come off. So I forget that doesn't really allow me to have a bad mood.
Katy PerryIn another life, I would be your girl. Capable of making promises. We would rule the world.
Katy PerryI 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.
Katy PerryWe're technology obsessed. I think it's easier to text than to actually say hi to someone.
Katy PerryI'm a woman who likes to be courted, strongly. Never say never, I guess you'd say. I'll let love take the lead on that.
Katy PerryI'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do.
Katy PerryRelationships are kind of like riding a bull. You hang on for dear life and sometimes you get a little buck here and there ... but you get back on.
Katy PerryI 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.
Katy PerryI've always been ambitious since I was nine years old and that was never going to change.
Katy PerryI grew up listening to gospel. That was the only thing that I had reference to because that was what my family was involved with.
Katy PerryBut 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
Katy PerryThe media, is media. You always have to take the media with a grain of salt. You can't believe everything you read.
Katy PerryMany people think I try to be like Lady Gaga but what they don't know is that I'm a Britney Spears wanna be.
Katy PerryPeople tried to do a lot of stuff with me early in my career where they tried to shape me into one thing or another. They couldn't just take the chance and go with my vision - which was just my intuition, really.
Katy PerryMy 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.
Katy PerryI'm okay if everything is honest and truthful and relatable. If it's fabricated and ill-motived, it's not good.
Katy PerryI'm a romantic and I kinda believed in this fairy tale. And in some ways I think that's always been to my advantage, because like if you can believe in something great, I feel like you can achieve something great.
Katy PerryI think the world likes to pick apart different songs and play doctor with songs sometimes and make them into this big controversial thing.
Katy PerryI 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.
Katy PerryPeople don't want just vanilla. They want 31 flavors. I couldn't do what Rihanna does. I couldn't do what Gaga does. They can't do what I do.
Katy PerryI 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?
Katy PerryI did my gospel record, but there was nothing really of it. Maybe a hundred people bought it. But it's one of those things on the internet that people find and they make into a big deal.
Katy PerryI just changed as a person and have always been changing constantly from fifteen to twenty-three.
Katy PerryI 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.
Katy PerryThe internet is such a strange place. You can put up one thing on there like, Katy Perry was a taekwondo master of the black belt! When really all I did was one kickboxing class. That's how I think my short time in doing my gospel record was like.
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