Katy Perry

I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting.

I didn't have a childhood.

I see everything through a spiritual lens.

If you're presenting yourself with confidence, you can pull off pretty much anything.

I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation.

I have always been the kid who's asked 'Why?' In my faith, you're just supposed to have faith. But I was always like 'why?'

I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me.

I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me. We agree to disagree.

I've always been ambitious since I was nine years old and that was never going to change.

My mother is very emotional as well, but my dad is more of the guts of the family. He was the main preacher, so he kind of had this little Pentecostal flair, but they are born-again.

I wasn't going to great schools, because my parents didn't believe in public education. They wanted the education to be influenced by their religion, so I was going to these halfway education-slash-Christian schools that were like pop-up shop-style education.

I came from a lot of intolerance and prejudice, which aren't necessarily healthy to evolve as a human.