Quotes By Katy Perry

I'd never devote a whole record to heartbreak.

I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting.

I have a second chance on life.

I don't feel like I'm very pop-star lame, but I'm definitely not hipster-cool.

I'm happy, I'm in a good place, I'm looking forward to my future.

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.

I gave myself until I turned 25 to make it. And if it didn't happen, I thought I'd just try to find a nice husband.

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

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

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

I never live in the present. I'd do interviews and people will say,'Isn't this great?' or 'Can you believe?' And I would react, like, 'No, I can't believe it because I'm not living in this moment.'

I didn't have a childhood.

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.

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

You have to spend a lot to make a lot. It's not like I'm sitting on top of a pile of money.

I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation.

People 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.

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

I like to go out there looking like a strong woman, because I am strong. But I am also a woman who goes through all kinds of problems and highs and lows.

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 like a good boy, but sometimes you get bored.

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

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?'

I just have so much love for my record label.

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'm okay with having bad dance moves.

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'm okay if everything is honest and truthful and relatable. If it's fabricated and ill-motived, it's not good.

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