Katy Perry Quotes

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.

My hope is that people experience the music and, in that, something works in them, that they realise how exceptional they are. Maybe that it inspires them to do something great in their own lives.

There's a lot to the story. And there are a lot of things I've learned about myself and about love, and I'm really grateful for the lessons, and I hope I can share that through art. I look for projects that allow me to do that, whether it's music or acting.

I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

I have learned so much about myself. I have re-discovered that little boy who had the hunger to create, which I think I had lost.

My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work.

The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.

I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that people would listen - that was when I started feeling good in my life.

To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.

I am still the place where creation does some work on itself.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

I've got rid of a lot of cynicism and anger. I feel positive about my development, and I just want to carry on making music and building myself as a person.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

To me that's what Jobs was about. He said at the end of the movie, 'When you realize that the world was created by people no smarter than you, your life will change.' That, to me, is a message for right now and people figuring out what they're going to do with themselves.

Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.