#ere

People love the idea of a good girl gone bad, thinking that my parents were so strict and disowned me, but that actually wasn't the case. Even though they don't necessarily agree with some of the things I do, they love me as their daughter. That's always been their perspective. ↗

— Katy Perry

#agree #always #bad #been #case

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. ↗

— Katy Perry

#allowed #anything #church #circle #different

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. ↗

— Katy Perry

#clique #different #groups #i #i think

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. ↗

— Katy Perry

#buttered #career #delicious #even #existed

My parents were strict, but it was the world I lived in. I had no idea there was a world outside. ↗

— Katy Perry

#i #idea #lived #no idea #outside

At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating. ↗

— Katy Perry

#block #chopping #devastating #female #female artists

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

— Katy Perry

#funny #guys #hung #i #kids

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. ↗

— Katy Perry

#ambition #blind #born #going #gotten

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. ↗

— Katy Perry

#along #believe #came #defined #disagree

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. ↗

— Katy Perry

#anywhere #church #dad #family #functions