Katy Perry Quotes

The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar.

I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.

When my parents gave me that first guitar, I became totally obsessed. I would stay in my room all the time with it, and my parents were concerned.

I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.

If you've got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You're the superstar.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.

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

I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.

I love to sing. I'm learning guitar right now.

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.

I've been writing songs since I was, like, five and I've been singing since, like, I can't remember.

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.

I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

If you listen to the way I speak, I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing my instrument, that concept comes through very clearly.

When you play a sax, that saxophone is irreverent. It's noisy; it's a trickster... you cannot hide the saxophone in your hands, so it's a good teacher.

When you write a song, there's no point keeping it to yourself.

I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.

I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, no one can tell you how you're going to do it but when you do it.

I think I was 15 the first time I wrote a good song.

I write, and I sing, and I play a little guitar. I mean, it's tiny. Ba-dump-bum!

If I weren't musical, then I would have just published a book, you know? But I'm lucky enough to play piano, and so I use piano to convert my poems.

I love making music. I love that it's unstructured, that I get to go perform and play in front of people, to meet new people. I love to do the thing I'm best at every day.

I express my thoughts through my music.