Top 200 Katy Perry Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “I grew up raised in church, my parents are both traveling ministers. They blocked out MTV which was fine, but I’d find myself figuring out who New Kids On The Block were.”

— Katy Perry

102. “I believe that I will be loved again, in the right way. I know I’m worth it.”

— Katy Perry

103. “I really wanted to call this album Teenage Wet Dream.”

— Katy Perry

104. “I don’t feel like I’m very pop-star lame, but I’m definitely not hipster-cool.”

— Katy Perry

105. “You can get through it and you can land on your feet triumphantly and strong.”

— Katy Perry

106. “Unfortunately, I think a lot of people are affected more by the idea of fame than the actual work ethic involved. A lot of them just want to be reality TV-type people who don’t do anything.”

— Katy Perry

107. “Fame is, I think, just a disgusting by-product of what I do.”

— Katy Perry

108. “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

109. “I have a confidence because my research shows that I should just really trust my instincts.”

— Katy Perry

110. “I don’t follow trends. I’m just not into what everyone else is wearing. I have my own look, which I call ‘Lolita Meets Old Hollywood Glam.’”

— Katy Perry

111. “I had no clue they would fall into my armpits eventually.”

— Katy Perry

112. “Last Friday night; Yeah we danced on tabletops. And we took too many shots. Think we kissed, but I forgot?”

— Katy Perry

113. “I’m an emotional person. I love music that moves me and makes the hair on my arms stand up. And I want the same thing in relationships. Either you can keep up or you can’t.”

— Katy Perry

114. “I missed out on the Spice Girls. I missed out on all those big pop phenomenon and missed out even on the Madonna records. It’s okay, cuz I’m playing catch-up on everything now.”

— Katy Perry

115. “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

116. “I’m on this extraordinary adventure, and if I have no one to talk to at the end of the night, I feel lonely.”

— Katy Perry

117. “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.”

— Katy Perry

118. “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.”

— Katy Perry

119. “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

120. “I’m like a fatter version of Amy Winehouse and a skinnier version of Lily Allen.”

— Katy Perry

121. “I just like having fun. And, you know, sometimes I just like to present myself in that fun energy.”

— Katy Perry

122. “I can’t be the candy queen forever.”

— Katy Perry

123. “I just want to make it very clear that I come from very humble beginnings, and I worked for everything!”

— Katy Perry

124. “I’m okay with having horrible lower teeth.”

— Katy Perry

125. “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.”

— Katy Perry

126. “My style icons were Gwen Stefani, when she was in No Doubt, and then Shirley Manson in Garbage.”

— Katy Perry

127. “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.”

— Katy Perry

128. “I still want to be as approachable and relatable as possible – when I meet fans and they’re crying, I’ll say, ‘Calm down, there’s nothing to cry about.’”

— Katy Perry

129. “I am not a feminist, but I do believe in the strength of women.”

— Katy Perry

130. “I think when you put sex and spirituality in the same bottle and shake it up, bad things happen.”

— Katy Perry

131. “I’m still driving along on the pop freeway of life. Thinking even further into the future, I definitely want to make an acoustic record. I want to try lots of different things.”

— Katy Perry

132. “My singing is really important to me, but when children come along they’ll be my main focus. I’d never put my career in front of my babies – it’d be a case of fitting jobs around them.”

— Katy Perry

133. “I just like having fun.”

— Katy Perry

134. “People don’t want just vanilla. They want 31 flavors. I couldn’t do what Rihanna does. I couldn’t do what Gaga does. They can’t do what I do.”

— Katy Perry

135. “Thank you for believing in my weirdness!”

— Katy Perry

136. “I still believe in love, most definitely. I’m just going to let that take the lead.”

— Katy Perry

137. “I grew up listening to gospel. That was the only thing that I had reference to because that was what my family was involved with.”

— Katy Perry

138. “I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.”

— Katy Perry

139. “It was so draining. Going to parties to rub elbows with so-and-so and act like it’s no big deal, when really all I was doing was hoping I’d have the success they had.”

— Katy Perry

140. “I grew up not really having anything, so the idea that I can take care of my family and my friends now is a really cool bonus.”

— Katy Perry

141. “I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation. And my conversation with God is very open-ended. I pray for humility, honestly, because it’s very easy to be caught up in this world.”

— Katy Perry

142. “I really love going to shows where I’m sandwiched between people, and you don’t know if the sweat on you is yours or the person’s next to you.”

— Katy Perry

143. “I came from a lot of intolerance and prejudice, which aren’t necessarily healthy to evolve as a human.”

— Katy Perry

144. “When I love somebody, I love somebody. Like, I want to marry them. I don’t date around. I haven’t been on a date.”

— Katy Perry

145. “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.”

— Katy Perry

146. “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.”

— Katy Perry

147. “I think it’s great to dress up and play on all the girly features.”

— Katy Perry

148. “Using blasphemy as entertainment is as cheap as a comedian telling a fart joke.”

— Katy Perry

149. “Honey, I am the chief of my train. If critics want to hop on board, fantastic. There’s plenty of room. The KP train is fun.”

— Katy Perry

150. “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