Quotes from Katy Perry

I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.

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

I feel really blessed because of where I come from.

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

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 wanted it to be like Amy Grant, but it didn't pan out that way. My label actually went bankrupt, and I was left without a home.

I always knew I wanted a great man of God, someone who was going to be an inspiration for people and also be a lovely husband and father.

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

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.

For a modern woman it is important to be supported and that there is equality in every aspect, and that it's not two halves that make a whole - it's two wholes that make a whole.

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 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.

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

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.

All this money can't buy me a time machine.

Hollywood is so fake and people need to realize that people are just people, and you, too, don't need to be born into something or have money or have whatever product someone is hawking on you.

My mother is very emotional as well, but my dad is more of the guts of the family. He was the main preacher, so he kind of had this little Pentecostal flair, but they are born-again.

You can get through it and you can land on your feet triumphantly and strong.

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

Speaking in tongues is as normal to me as 'Pass the salt' It's a secret, direct prayer language to God.

I'm not Buddhist, I'm not Hindu, I'm not Christian, but I still feel like I have a deep connection with God.

I consider myself a believer in something much bigger than myself, thank God.

Im a good girl at heart who just wants to have fun.

Don't care what people gonna think of you, do what you wanna do and seek just your happiness.