Quotes By Katy Perry

Find out what your gift is and nurture it.

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.

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.

I'm okay with having horrible lower teeth.

I'm going to let love lead the way, always. And I was born with this blind - blind ambition, and it's kind of gotten me here to this point. And I think that I'll stick to it.

My parents are very quirky, eccentric. They have their own world.

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 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've done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.