#som

Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class. ↗

— Anne Perry

#based #beings #breeding #buy #class

You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and start off. I start from what happened, including the why. ↗

— Anne Perry

#does #down #end #everyone #go

You look at someone like Beyonce singing 'Single Ladies,' when we all know she's married. Some of it is just for entertainment. ↗

— Katy Perry

#entertainment #just #know #ladies #like

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

Sometimes if you want to achieve something great, there will be curveballs. You just have to dodge them every once in a while. ↗

— Katy Perry

#dodge #every #great #just #once

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

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

Even if you actually have the good intent to do something creative or special with your life, it's hard. I mean, look at the number of people who actually get the opportunity. ↗

— Katy Perry

#creative #even #get #good #hard

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. ↗

— Katy Perry

#always #chances #completely #definitely #everyone

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. ↗

— Katy Perry

#brooklyn #earrings #hip-hop #history #history book