18 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)
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)
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)
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)
We're all unique. That's why we all win and we all can exist. People don't want just vanilla. They want 31 flavors. I couldn't do what Rihanna does. I couldn't do what Gaga does. They can't do what I do.
Cosmopolitan magazine (2009)
I took a break from my boyfriend, not one that I wanted. It was like a splash of cold water to search inward on what was going on with me. That is what let me to this new awakening, this realizing, if I don't do some self-love, I'm not going to be able to keep the love that I want.
Cosmopolitan magazine (2009)