Top 100 Katy Perry Quotes
#1. I don't believe in a heaven or a hell or an old man sitting on a throne. I believe in a higher power bigger than me because that keeps me accountable.
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#2. Be yourself, that's what makes the world go round!
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#3. When I decide to become a mother I will just be that. That will be really important to me.
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#4. People talk about bullying, but you can be your own bully in some ways. You can be the person who is standing in the way of your success, and that was the case for me.
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#5. I crushed on the most popular guy in school! I saw him at a concert and I shouted out, Is that Shane Lopes? You were the most popular guy in my class, but you never wanted to go out with me. Instead it was Amanda Wayne. What are you thinking now?
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#6. The first songs I wrote were catchy, but the subject matter was God.
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#7. Santa Barbara is my hood. I mean, it's not much of a hood, but it is definitely like my hood. I claim Santa Barbara like I claim my family. I'm going to be married and buried there.
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#8. 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.
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#9. The media, is media. You always have to take the media with a grain of salt. You can't believe everything you read.
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#10. When I love somebody, I love somebody. Like, I want to marry them. I don't date around. I haven't been on a date.
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#11. I've lived such a great, fantastic life already, but there's still so much more.
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#12. I get a lot of the ideas when I'm resting - either when I'm meditating or getting some kind of work done on my back, like physical therapy or acupuncture. That's where I get my best ideas, maybe because I'm balancing my body.
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#13. A lot of the time people don't even know what they want until they see something new.
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#14. Cause in you're eyes, I'd like to stay
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#15. I had this lump in my throat, but I couldn't even cry. I thought, I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up. I was just sitting there in my car that I was two months behind on payments for, knowing I didn't have money for rent.
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#16. There's a spark in you you've just gotta ignite the light and let it SHINE.
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#17. I grew up not really having anything, so the idea that I can take care of my family and my friends now is a really cool bonus.
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#18. People don't understand that I have a great relationship with my parents - like, how that can exist. There isn't any judgment. They don't necessarily agree with everything I do, but I don't necessarily agree with everything they do.
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#19. I'm not coming out trying to prove anything to anyone, like, 'Oh, I'm in assless chaps!' or 'I can't be tamed!' I've already been through that phase. I started at 23, you know?
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#21. I have to be a ginger for 3 weeks.
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#22. You held me down, but I got up
Hey!
Alrighty brushing off the dust
You hear my voice
You hear that sound
Like thunder gonna shake the ground
-Roar
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#23. I can't rate myself, but if you ask Russell, I'm sure he'd give me a ten out of ten.
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#24. I was not even allowed to mention the name Madonna in my household - just because I think the '80s and '90s were so Madonna-filled. She was going through so many evolutions at that time.
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#25. I've always been ambitious since I was nine years old and that was never going to change.
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#26. You look at someone like Beyonce singing 'Single Ladies,' when we all know she's married. Some of it is just for entertainment.
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#27. My heart beat Beats me senselessly Why's everything Gotta be so intense with me ...
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#28. Honey, I am the chief of my train. If critics want to hop on board, fantastic. There's plenty of room. The KP train is fun.
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#29. This is the part of me that you're never gonna ever take away from me.
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#30. I was, like, just eating Flamin' Hot Cheetos and drinking, and that's it.
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#31. 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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#32. I still believe in love, most definitely. I'm just going to let that take the lead.
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#33. 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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#34. If you like my music, great, and if you don't, whatever. I'm going to keep making it either way.
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#35. 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?'
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#36. I like a good boy, but sometimes you get bored.
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#37. I have multipersonality disorder - in a very good way, of course - when it comes to my fashion choices.
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#38. I have a soft spot for musicians. If a man could ride this roller coaster with me and come out alive, then I guess we'd deserve each other's company.
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#39. When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view.
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#40. I'd like to say I'd like to be as big as a Gwen or a Madonna, but I think those days of achieving that level are over. The media is bringing everybody down.
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#41. I think it's great to dress up and play on all the girly features.
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#42. I remember really vividly kneeling by my bed as a nine-year-old, saying my prayers and asking God to give me boobs that were so big that if I laid on my back I wouldn't be able to see my feet.
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#43. Speaking in tongues is as normal to me as 'Pass the salt' It's a secret, direct prayer language to God.
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#44. 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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#45. Now I'm floating like a butterfly
Stinging like a bee I earned my stripes
I went from zero, to my own hero
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#46. Sometimes, you promise someone forever, but it doesn't work that way ...
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#47. Talking about the future, like we had a clue. Never plans that one day, I'd be losing you
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#48. Maybe I'm competitive. 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. I have a lot of ambition.
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#49. People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices.
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#50. No regrets, just love. We can dance until we die. You and I, we'll be young forever!
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#51. Cause when I'm with him
I am thinking of you.
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#52. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease.
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#53. If you're presenting yourself with confidence, you can pull off pretty much anything.
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#54. I'm not Buddhist, I'm not Hindu, I'm not Christian, but I still feel like I have a deep connection with God,
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#55. Everybody wants to have a commentary on my life, like they are actually living it. Cool, comment all you want but I'm the one that's living it.
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#56. I think some people will die on the stage, and I'm not so sure I want to do that. Like, I want to have kids! I'm totally fine with saying that. I think some people are scared because they're worried it's going to ruin their career, but I want to live a full life.
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#58. When I kissed a girl, nobody was around. So I didn't do it for anybody. I'm not a lesbian. I encourage anybody to try anything, just make sure you have integrity and character. It doesn't matter who anyone loves. I am for gay rights and I also have a boyfriend.
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#59. I feel really blessed because of where I come from.
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#60. 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.
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#61. Don't care what people gonna think of you, do what you wanna do and seek just your happiness.
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#62. Last Friday night; Yeah we danced on tabletops. And we took too many shots. Think we kissed, but I forgot?
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#63. I was like, I don't know if I can hold that promise [to wait until marriage to have sex] because this guy at camp is really cute. Sex wasn't talked about in my home, but I was a very curious young girl.
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#64. I'm okay if everything is honest and truthful and relatable. If it's fabricated and ill-motived, it's not good.
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#65. I'm kind of a more sunshiny person myself.
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#66. Like my freedom. If I feel like I'm being controlled, I get crazy. Because I know I made it this far by following my intuition. I think people like who I am, and I like who I am, and I want to be a better version of myself every single day. So stop controlling me!
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#67. I 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.
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#68. I'm just singing about my own life. Singing about all the little stories in my life and the things I've been through.
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#69. They think that I was like Amy Grant, when actually no! The label went bankrupt and maybe sold a couple hundred records and that's about it. I was just trying different things.
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#70. Sometimes if you want to achieve something great, there will be curveballs. You just have to dodge them every once in a while.
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#71. In another life, I would be your girl, we keep all our promises, the us against the world, In another life, I would make you stay, So I don't have to say you were the one that got away the one that got away
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#72. 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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#73. My 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.
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#74. 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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#75. 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.
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#76. If someone hurts you make the bitch pay.
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#77. I came from a lot of intolerance and prejudice, which aren't necessarily healthy to evolve as a human.
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#78. 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.
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#79. 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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#80. I did a lot of thrift and vintage. I would mix those pieces into some of the more inexpensive items from Express, Gap, Old Navy, and Clothestime.
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#81. You can get through it and you can land on your feet triumphantly and strong.
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#82. How do I get better once I've had the best?
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#83. 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.
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#84. 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.
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#85. I say what I think. I'm a real person, not some manufactured pop tart who's afraid to step out of the hotel room. I am flawed. I swear, I have the occasional cocktail, I pick my nose and I fart. I'm not running for any presidential campaign at the moment. I'm a sassy girl.
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#86. Relationships 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.
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#87. I got a fantastic person to work me out and get me into really good shape.
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#88. I always tell my fans that are closest to me, if it's not coming from my mouth, my website, or my appointed person, then it's generally not true. Or it's an exaggeration.
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#89. I have a confidence because my research shows that I should just really trust my instincts.
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#90. My parents were strict, but it was the world I lived in. I had no idea there was a world outside.
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#91. I think that you should definitely listen to what people say, because everyone says it: High school is not the real world.
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#92. I love what I do, and when I don't love what I do, I'll make a change.
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#93. My style icons were Gwen Stefani, when she was in No Doubt, and then Shirley Manson in Garbage.
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#94. Find out what your gift is and nurture it.
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#95. You can't be a full tranny every day of the week that's an exaggerated part of my personality.
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#96. Comparisons are easily done, once you've had a taste of perfection
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#97. Recycle those nerves and make them adreneline.
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#98. I'm up to my hairline in planning. It's a lot, especially when you're a woman of detail,
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#99. 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.
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#100. I was being musically mentored by a lot of people who were obviously more talented and skilled than I was, and I thought that I would just kind of learn the ropes of songwriting there - like how to do acoustic, country-esque songs, which I like because there's so much story in them.
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