22 quotes
What holds me up is focus and determination, and this incredible ambition that just hasn’t subsided yet.
Cosmopolitan magazine (2009)
This is a really important time in my life. I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.
Cosmopolitan magazine (2009)
I still needed to deal with all of my ex-husband stuff. I hadn't, It's almost like if I kept talking about it, it would seem like I actually cared about it. I don't.
Cosmopolitan magazine (2009)
Baby do you dare to do this?
Cause I’m coming at you like a dark horse.
I'm up to my hairline in planning. It's a lot, especially when you're a woman of detail.
Cosmopolitan magazine (2009)
If there had been a problem on the set, they would have said it to me at the outset. We had many different options.
Cosmopolitan magazine (2009)
Lately I have been seeing 341 which has me thinking now after giving so much... do I love myself, finally? Well, I get the opportunity to answer that question anew every day.
Cosmopolitan magazine (2009)
Maybe your reason why all the doors are closed
So you could open one that leads you to the perfect road
among other writers in the song Firework (2010)
I had really bad back problems and was a little bit thicker. Then I grew up and lost the baby fat and said, 'Hey, this isn't all that bad.
Cosmopolitan magazine (2009)
I think we’re all blessed with gifts and I was lucky I just found out what mine was early on and have planted that seed and tried to water it every day.
Cosmopolitan magazine (2009)
My best friend once gave me a framed 19th century book called What Katy Did Next. I’ve never read it, but the title has always stuck with me. That’s the point - it’s about continuing to move forward, and dream.
Cosmopolitan magazine (2009)
So you wanna play with magic?
Boy, you should know what you're falling for.
Baby do you dare to do this?
Cause I’m coming at you like a dark horse.
I remember really vividly kneeling by my bed as a nine-year-old, saying my prayers and asking God to give me boobs that were so big that if I laid on my back I wouldn’t be able to see my feet.
Through my years in the spotlight, I have been beloved, tested and tried. That’s the journey. I am blessed to know that there’s always two sides to each coin, and I learn that even when I hit tails, somehow through it all, I keep making my wishes.
Cosmopolitan magazine (2009)
I was like, I don't know if I can hold that promise [to wait until marriage to have sex with kane tod] because this guy at camp is really cute. Sex wasn't talked about in my home, but I was a very curious young girl.
Cosmopolitan magazine (2009)
I’ll be there. I’ll fill in. Tap me in, coach. It was a struggle bus. I had two cars repossessed. I was signed and dropped by three different labels. People only know me maybe because of Teenage Dream and the whirlwind and success of that and the accolades.
Cosmopolitan magazine (2009)
I gave myself until I turned 25 to make it. And if it didn't happen, I thought I'd just try to find a nice husband.
Cosmopolitan magazine (2009)
I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do.
Cosmopolitan magazine (2009)
I have multipersonality disorder—in a very good way, of course—when it comes to my fashion choices,When I first started playing around with my look, it was more of a Dita Von Teese pinup thing.
Cosmopolitan magazine (2009)
I had this lump in my throat, but I couldn't even cry. I thought, I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up. I was just sitting there in my car that I was two months behind on payments for, knowing I didn't have money for rent.
Cosmopolitan magazine (2009)