Katy Perry Quotes

We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had.

Being a Jehovah's Witness, it was really a trip. We had to go from door to door, and we weren't allowed to associate with the other children. It was a lot of rules.

I'd had a strict religious education.

I was brought up very conservatively. My father was positively Victorian - I wasn't even allowed to wear my hair down.

My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to study and work hard.

My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.

I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

I grew up in a very strict household, where secular music was forbidden.

Yes, I come from a protective family. I wasn't even allowed to sleep over at a friend's place as a child.

I had very strict parents, I could never go outside or go to parties.

My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.

For four years, my mum allowed only church music in the house.

I stopped going to Kingdom Hall, the church, when I was 11 years old, so I was very young. They don't celebrate birthdays, you get no Christmas, so it's a very difficult religion for children to get into. And they do a lot of finger-pointing among the Jehovah's Witnesses.

So many limits in Catholic high school! I'm not a bad Catholic, but everything was off-limits.

We are already expected to be the goodie two shoes. I went through that during my junior high schools where I wasn't allowed to watch television. I wasn't allowed to listen to the radio.

I wanted to be on my own and get out of the house. We were the kind of kids that - we - obeyed our parents. If they said no, you don't ask why.

So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.

I grew up in a very strict Pentecostal household.

I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for.

It was very painful combing my hair. My grand-uncle was a Pentecostal bishop, and he was very strict: our hair couldn't be permed or straightened. So I just cut it all off.

Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.

My house was very strange. I didn't do things other kids did because my parents were very strict - I stayed at home, quiet in my room.

My father is a Jehovah's Witness, and he raised us under a very strict hand.

Mennonites are very conservative. They don't drink, dance, smoke, go to movies. I grew up in a very conservative faith-based community.

I grew up in a religious family, and we weren't allowed to listen to rock music.