Katy Perry Quotes

Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.

The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies.

It seems we're always in transition and that it's more about trends than it is about what's meaningful.

You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.

I've been around long enough to know that empires come and empires go, and I can't tell how long the Google empire is going to last - but I'm pretty convinced that the answer is less than forever.

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

You can't be a superhero or super mom.

I needed to become something besides the star everybody had built me up to be.

You can't do something forever.

The two things I've been told most often since my career took off - by taxi drivers, lifelong friends and everyone in between - have been, 'Don't ever change, Margot' and 'You can't do that anymore, Margot.'

Trying to catch hold of yourself is a fool's errand. There is no you, only a series of former yous, created in one instant, deleted in the next.

The top of a pinnacle now, firewood soon

I get a little tighter when I have to play the perfect Captain American-type of dude.

I know, if I would have won 'X-Factor' and if I would have continued in that lane, I would have spiraled out of control. Performing on there was good, but it wasn't me. It was me compromising for the judges, just different people around.

It's crazy that people are looking to me as a symbol like, 'Oh, he's the voice of the youth. He's this and this and that.' I feel like there's a lot of pressure that comes with it, when people look to you as the face of something.

I came back from the Olympic Games, and straightaway, I'm this role model. So that means I can't mess around with my mates like I used to because, if I do, people are going to use it to knock me down.

Results come and go; tournaments come and go.

The hardest thing to have is success, because it seems to tell people what you are. But it doesn't.

One of the things I've said to teams and players from time to time - especially when things are going well like we had them going in Orlando - is that you better appreciate it and enjoy it because things change quickly in this game. You know, it's tough for guys to really think it will change on them, but it does.

Everything comes to an end.

Once you believe things are permanent, you're trapped in a world without doors.

I can't be a role model. I just can't be.

A violent wind does not outlast the morning; a squall of rain does not outlast the day. Such is the course of Nature. And if Nature herself cannot sustain her efforts long, how much less can man!

I knew this friendship with myself couldn’t last forever.

Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?