Katy Perry
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.Collection: Dating
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.Collection: Wedding
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.Collection: Home
My sister travels with me, and she's the person who keeps me in line, whether I like it or not. I trust her and also have a good, healthy fear of her.Collection: Trust
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.Collection: Humor
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.Collection: Success
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.Collection: Equality
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.Collection: Good
I've done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.Collection: Imagination
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.Collection: Dad
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.Collection: Learning
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?'Collection: Faith
If people want a role model, they can have Miley Cyrus.
If you're presenting yourself with confidence, you can pull off pretty much anything.
I think it's great to dress up and play on all the girly features.
I don't need the Prince Charming to have my own happy ending.
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.
I'm every woman. It takes a village to make me who I am.
I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect.
Find out what your gift is and nurture it.
I am so grateful for all the love and support I've had from people around the world.
My personality is up and down, sassy and cheeky.
I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease.
Sometimes if you want to achieve something great, there will be curveballs. You just have to dodge them every once in a while.
I've lived such a great, fantastic life already, but there's still so much more.
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.
I just like having fun. And, you know, sometimes I just like to present myself in that fun energy.
I have multipersonality disorder - in a very good way, of course - when it comes to my fashion choices.
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'm happy, I'm in a good place, I'm looking forward to my future.
I have a lot of ambition.
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.
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 love what I do, and when I don't love what I do, I'll make a change.
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'm not defined by where I came from. 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.
I have a second chance on life.
I'm not going to be everything to everyone.
I unfortunately still crave chicken McNuggets and bacon, which is the meat candy of the world.
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 believe in a lot of astrology. I believe in aliens... I look up into the stars and I imagine: 'How self-important are we to think that we are the only life-form?'
I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation.
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.
I didn't have a childhood.
I came from a lot of intolerance and prejudice, which aren't necessarily healthy to evolve as a human.
If you like my music, great, and if you don't, whatever. I'm going to keep making it either way.
I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting.
My parents are very quirky, eccentric. They have their own world.
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 pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world.