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" Ever since I was younger I wanted to be on stage, singing my songs in a glittering costume. And that happened and is still happening. I have to remember that this is what I wished for and be grateful because there are 500 other girls right behind me that are ready to snatch it up. "

Katy Perry

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Myself

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Become

" I still believe in love, most definitely. I'm just going to let that take the lead. "

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

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Who

" I want to sell out arenas and sell millions of records. "

" 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. "

" Oh, I will always be honest with my music. The records are black boxes for me. Like if you want to know who I am, my views, my perspective, things I love, things I hate, my convictions, my anthems. I've never let people's opinions affect the way I write. "

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I Am

Music

" 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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Need

Song

" 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 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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Little

Want

" 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 style icons were Gwen Stefani, when she was in No Doubt, and then Shirley Manson in Garbage. "

" 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?' "

" 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. "

" Fame is, I think, just a disgusting by-product of what I do. "

" 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. "

" I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting. "

" 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. "

" 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 don't feel like I'm very pop-star lame, but I'm definitely not hipster-cool. "

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Definitely

Very

" 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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" I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me. We agree to disagree. "

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