Katy Perry Quotes Page 2

“I like a good boy, but sometimes you get bored.”

“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 love what I do, and when I don't love what I do, I'll make a change.”

“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 pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world.”

“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 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 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.”

“I think you become more relatable when you're vulnerable.”

“I wasn't going to great schools, because my parents didn't believe in public education. They wanted the education to be influenced by their religion, so I was going to these halfway education-slash-Christian schools that were like pop-up shop-style education.”

“I'd never devote a whole record to heartbreak.”

“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 a woman who likes to be courted – strongly.”

“I'm competitive with myself, and that goes hand in hand with how I present myself. I'm not only trying to put one foot in front of the other, I'm trying to put my best foot forward.”

“I'm either going to go completely mental, completely bankrupt, or have the best success of my life.”

“I'm every woman. It takes a village to make me who I am.”

“I'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.”

“I'm not going to be everything to everyone.”

“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.”

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

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

“I've lived such a great, fantastic life already, but there's still so much more.”

“If people want a role model, they can have Miley Cyrus.”

“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!”

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

“If you're presenting yourself with confidence, you can pull off pretty much anything.”

“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.”

“My career is like an artichoke. People might think that the leaves are tasty and buttered up and delicious, and they don't even know that there's something magical hidden at the base of it. There's a whole other side of me that people didn't know existed.”

“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.”