Katy Perry Quotes

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Katy Perry

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 25, 1984

With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them.

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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.

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I came from a different mind-set growing up, and my mind has changed.

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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.

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I still want to make a pop record. I want to make a more sonically current pop record. I maybe want to make people move a little bit more.

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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.

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I think we're all blessed with gifts and I was lucky I just found out what mine was early on and have planted that seed and tried to water it every day.

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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.

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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.

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You know you're living right when you wake up, brush your hair - and confetti falls out!

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I 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.

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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.

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If you are not happy with something, you should change it. So I went to a lot of therapy, and finally, I am able to speak up for myself: You are going to hear me roar!

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The first songs I wrote were catchy, but the subject matter was God.

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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.

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I'm not defined by where I came from.

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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.

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I see everything through a spiritual lens.

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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.

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When I was younger, I used to be a part of the surfing-and-skateboarding community.

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