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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. "

Katy Perry

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

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

" I have a second chance on life. "

" My parents are very quirky, eccentric. They have their own world. "

" 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 just like having fun. "

" I gave myself until I turned 25 to make it. And if it didn't happen, I thought I'd just try to find a nice husband. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes I can be distracted by the glamour and the fabulousness. "

" 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. "

Katy Perry

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" 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. "

Katy Perry

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" When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view. "

" I don't want to be above my audience; I want to be one with my audience. "

" I was a hop-around. I hung out with the rockabilly crew, the guys who were trying to be rappers, the funny kids. "

" I live a rock-star kind of life where I don't go to bed until 4 A.M. I'm very nocturnal. "

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" I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The press is just not your friend when it comes to a marriage. That's why we didn't sell the pictures of our wedding, and we got offered millions of dollars for them, millions. "

" I write my songs because I've lived them. "

" There are times I go out and meet people and flirt, but it's not really appropriate to have anything serious. "

" I'm a woman who likes to be courted - strongly. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that's all you've got, it's just boring. Everything I write, whether it's happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it. "

" I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy. "