Katy Perry: Getting Intimate (2014) - full transcript

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- Katy Perry is officially among

the most successful and

celebrated female

entertainers on the planet

Since her 2008 debut,

America's reigning pop queen

has sealed her place

in music royalty.

- Hi everybody. Welcome

to the behind-the-scenes

of the Hello Katy tour.

Ah!

Shh.

I think we should go

and just say hi.

They might freak out a

little bit.

Should we do it?

Yes? Yes? Yes?

( cheering )

- Katy's assent to mega stardom

has been so dramatic,

that she's the only woman

in history to have

five number one singles

from the same album.

Few know the real story

of Katy's bumpy ride

to super stardom and how success

very nearly passed her by.

- She was very, very, very, very

nervous, literally shaking.

She was right next to me,

and she was just,

like, her whole body

was convulsing.

- It's been quite the journey.

I was signed to major

labels and dropped.

They wanted me to be

like whatever was popular,

like the Avril Lavigne,

the Ashley Simpson,

the Kelly Clarkson at the time,

who I... I like those girls,

but I just wanted to be me.

When I was a kid, I grew up

in this very sheltered,

kind of suppressive atmosphere.

- She wasn't allowed

to watch any TV.

Bedtime stories were

just Bible verses.

Church was all she knew.

- Her parents are

Pentecostal ministers.

They came to the show in Paris

and they were

very reserved people.

- And when everything went mad

about Russell Brand and her,

and she was on the front

cover of every magazine,

it was a weekly kind

of Katy Perry fix.

- My comedy now is all about

sort of domesticity

and looking after cats

and burglar alarms

and oh, cleaning your

teeth together

When it used to be about roaring

through the London streets

with razor blades

and ticker tape and glitter

all over your tongue.

- We're getting married,

and we're gonna wear white.

- I was really surprised

because they just met

and then all of a sudden

they're getting married.

- It's extraordinary how

when Katy and Russell

got together the speed at

which they kind of

committed to each other.

- We interviewed Katy around

the time she was about

to get married to Russell,

and she said, you know,

when someone's the one

you just know.

She's a real romantic like that.

- Katy was in her mid-twenties,

awash with sex hormones

at that age.

Your biology is

positively screaming

I want to find someone

to have babies with.

- She was going with

her gut instinct.

- Now, when you're awash

with those hormones

and you connect at the kind

of animal level,

then you don't

make good choices.

- The romantic element

I keep private

because it's between me

and my lovely wife.

The crazy element,

you've seen my books.

Waking up in rooms full

of refugees,

hanging off of boats,

arrested in crack houses.

I had a ridiculous life.

- When you break up after

a whirlwind relationship,

you know people are thinking,

I told you so.

And how foolish would you

feel when you

had this ridiculously

huge marriage in India,

and then it all falls apart,

you know, like a year later.

- After coming through a

dark period

and a dark time where I lost

a lot of my self-confidence

because I was let down, or...

And I got very upset

in my personal life,

and so through that I lost

a lot of my strength.

And I had to turn inward.

- You love who you love.

You can't make yourself

stop dreaming

of who you're dreaming

of you know?

- I don't know.

I still believe in love,

most definitely.

I'm just gonna

let that take the lead.

- One thing is certain,

the ups and downs

of Katy Perry's spectacular life

will always work their

way into her music.

There is much that's paradoxical

about Katy Perry.

It's all part of

her unique charm.

Behind the kittens

and cupcake cuteness,

there lies a steely,

unsentimental attitude

towards the industry

that sustains her.

- I'm gonna take you on a

little tour, no pun intended.

This is Vern.

He makes this happen,

runs things.

That's where we keep

all the bad people.

The bad fans.

- Katy Perry isn't

a classic pop princess.

She's a real tigress.

- There are definitely

two Katys.

She treated us very well,

was very gracious.

Katy's personality is quite

difficult to gauge because

she does seem to exist in

two places,

and the Katy Perry persona

has one personality

which is obviously

the projection,

and then there's her.

- We don't have

the damn strawberries.

Bradford, this sucks.

We don't have strawberries.

- You gave them all

away last night.

- I gave my strawberries

away last night.

We have these specially-made

strawberries that you

can probably see all

over the Internet

because we get them made.

They're larger than life.

They're about this big.

And then we toss them out

into the audience

and they kind of, like, bounce

them around like beach balls.

- There were a couple of moments

on the first two gigs

when the video screens

didn't work.

A couple of the production

managers got bawled out.

We saw them running away

from the production office

sort of looking

very disgruntled.

So she runs a tight ship,

and she wasn't very happy

about that.

- Where's my cherry Chapstick?

Bradford, do you have my

cherry Chapstick?

A man should never have

a woman's cherry Chapstick.

- Katy is very different

from a lot of stars.

While we were there rehearsing,

she was just nice enough

to introduce herself

to everyone, and she didn't

come in like she...

She owned the place,

even though it was

all about her, you know,

it was her show.

She was just really humble,

which was nice to work with.

- Hello.

Oh, yes, my microphone stand.

Hold on, stay right here.

- When we got onto her tour bus,

that was definitely

the peek behind the curtain,

and you felt like

you were meeting

the real Katy there.

And having just been exposed

to Katy Perry for four weeks,

and that larger-than-life

persona, and she looks like

a doll, and her eyelashes

are insane and, you know,

she's wearing six-inch heels

whenever you see her,

so she towers over you,

and then you meet

the real person and

she's just this sort of

quite fragile girl in a

Juicy couture track suit

and some Uggs with her hair

in a scrunchie.

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- So I like a theme, like

I told you, kittens and fruit.

I don't know why.

- I would expect from Katy

to turn up

in some glamorous outfit, like,

looking amazing, and she just

turned up in track

suit bottoms, hat, sunglasses,

and she was like, let's go.

- What you see is what you get.

She's like a normal girl.

- I'm not a very complex girl.

I just like certain things.

And so I had them make an

LED fruit-glittered

microphone stand.

LED lights basically

this lights up

into different colors

of the rainbow when it's on,

and it can pulsate and

it can flash different...

Different rhythms and different

colors to match the song

if it's... like a song called

"Hot and Cold,"

it will go up and down,

and these fruit glitter.

And it's kind of heavy.

And then I have my microphone

crystallized with cherries.

It's these little things

that keep me really happy

to be on the road 365 days

out of the year.

- I also have danced for Pink.

Comparing those two,

Katy was very, very much

like a new girl to the scene,

very shy, kind of smiled to us,

whereas Pink was with us

on stage, right guys,

like, directing us literally.

So the difference, you know,

was massive at the time.

- So I have to tell you,

I started...

Everybody always asks, is there

something you do before a show.

And I never used to have

a ritual per se,

besides warming up

and stretching, but then

after singing every other

day for, like, five days for

a whole year and a half...

Five days a week,

my voice started getting

a little bit tired,

and I needed to come up

with more of a ritual.

And my very close friend

and manager said,

when Roy Orbison was alive,

he used to drink a Coca-Cola

and have a Tylenol

an hour before his show,

and he put on a performance

like no other,

every single night.

And K.D. Lang does it as well,

and I guess I started doing it.

So every night,

an hour before my show,

I have some Coca-Cola

and a Tylenol.

And I don't know if

it's good or bad, but I think

it just messes with my mind

to let me know

we're gonna have a great show.

It's probably not

the greatest idea

because caffeine isn't

usually good for singers.

I'm having... I'm probably

freaking out so many vocalists

that are watching

this right now.

They're like,

that is a horrible idea.

Well, Roy Orbison did it,

and he's a classic.

Come on!

- She seemed very young

and quite vulnerable, and yeah,

she seemed tired,

but that's to be expected.

You know, the weight of

the world is on her shoulders.

She is literally carrying

all of these people

in this huge sort

of monolithic career

she's built for herself.

- My mother never

let me drink Coca-Cola.

That's really

why I think I do it.

- The amount of pressure

those thousands of people

that are out there every

night waiting to see her.

- The pressure on Katy

would be absolutely enormous

to keep going the way she does.

But you have to remember,

someone who makes it

to the top in the world that

she has, is incredibly focused.

- Trapped in an elevator.

- They are determined,

they are goal-directed.

Those are psychological traits

that set them up to get there.

As long as she has a

good support group around her,

she will manage

the pressure around her.

- She's very much in

her bubble and looked after.

- We're here.

- A lot of her friends from

back home are part of the crew.

She wants to keep them

around her, which I thought

was really charming and,

you know, suggests she's

a really good person.

- This is my band.

- Hi.

- Hello,

random television camera.

- We have one, only-Japanese

speaking person in the band.

He doesn't speak English

- I can't understand

a word you're saying.

- We only make fun of him.

- She was there for everyone,

and she was just working

as a whole team.

- I hate to keep on using

the word gracious,

but it describes her behavior.

- She's an amazing artist

and a performer, but she's real,

and that's why I think people

just absolutely love her.

- Should we tell the camera

who is here tonight?

- Her publicist always says,

oh, Katy's so funny,

like, she just doesn't

take herself too seriously.

Just you can have

a laugh with her.

- Okay. So my...

- There's a rumor Prince Harry...

- Prince Harry is here.

- Not William.

- I love a hot gin.

No, I don't. Um, really...

- Just kidding.

- Just kidding.

My sister is a ginger.

I've had enough of that

in my life already.

- She's really sort

of charismatic and really fun

and bubbly, just a barrel

of laughs to go out with.

- I think she's fabulous.

You know, she's a wonderful

role model.

She gets out there,

she does her own thing.

- I'm very independent.

I can take care of

myself, and yeah,

I want to cuddle sometimes, and

yeah, I get hungry sometimes.

And I'm nice generally, but

I want to do my own thing.

- She's not afraid to be normal.

- That's definitely part

of her personality

and something that

she's always trying to project

that she's approachable and,

you know, down to earth.

- Come on, show us the...

This is the prom king.

This is the prom queen.

I always want to

really relatable, like,

when I reach out there, I want

them to be able to reach back.

Every night I go into

the crowd, and I get, like,

into the crowd and,

you know, after I come back,

everyone's like, you're crazy,

you got to stop doing that.

And I'm like, why?

They don't expect it.

That's that one extra

thing that they don't expect

that's kind of like, wow,

she's normal,

or she's like a real person.

I hate the idea that

I'm any different than them

or that they couldn't do this.

I hate when musicians

think they're better

than other people, or they

stop relating or connecting.

I think it's all about

the connection,

and I always want to connect

with my audience.

I want them to know that

we're kind of on the same team.

We are on the same team.

( cheering )

- Thank you so much.

- Since the inception

of her career,

Katy Perry has become

a global brand.

In the midst of promoting

her music,

the perpetually busy star

has been building

a multimillion dollar

product empire.

With an impressive array

of commercial achievements

ranging from album sales

and merchandise to touring

and endorsements,

in every category,

Katy is at the forefront.

- I'm really happy

to present Purr here in London

first and foremost,

next week in New York City,

it will be fantastic.

- Does it represent Katy?

- I think it does.

- Yeah. Yeah.

- It's very, very sexy, so...

- Yeah.

- I want to go and buy it.

- We just think she's amazing.

- Katy is

the ultimate businesswoman,

has endorsed lots and

lots of products.

She's a true businesswoman.

- She has three fragrances.

- Killer Queen, Purr, and Meow.

- She has, like,

her pop chips endorsement,

and her GHD endorsement.

- She has had a range

of nails, and a range

of nail varnish from OPI.

- She also has her own

range of fake eyelashes.

- Her statement look

is her false eyelashes.

- She's the face of

the cosmetics brand Cover Girl,

and she's also had a role in

the console game, Sims 3.

- This is a woman who is

very astute and very clever.

She was the first person

to wear tiger print nails

or put Smurfs on her nails.

And in fact, when she

wore some yellow nail varnish

to the MTV awards,

it sold out afterwards.

- It's important to kind of

have a brand

and create your own, you know,

excitement, but Katy does that,

but the music is always first.

- Hearts on my butt.

We look smashing, don't we?

Okay, not really.

I'm not a one-hit wonder.

I'm not a two-hit wonder.

Hopefully not

a three-hit wonder.

I'm just happy.

I'm happy that it's happened

and it's happened to go

for so long.

- Before she roared onto

the pop scene

as the incarnation of

a global megabrand,

Katy Perry's formative

years were less starry.

In the 1960s, Katy's father,

Keith Hudson

lived a hedonistic,

party lifestyle.

He was part of the

Strawberry Fields Forever group,

a hippy movement

which dealt in LSD

and campaigned for

controversial drug advocate,

Timothy Leary, to be elected

as governor.

- Keith and Mary Hudson,

they both actually

had kind of wild child pasts.

A typical hippie Keith was.

He's known to have

taken LSD in the past.

And one day, I'm not sure

if he'd been taking LSD

or not that day, but he was

in an apple orchard

when he suddenly had

these amazing visions

of Bible verses in the sky,

and he knew that his calling

was to become a preacher.

- Katy's mother, Mary Perry,

was an equally free spirit.

A flamboyant wild child

who traveled the world,

and dated legendary

guitarist, Jimi Hendrix.

- Mary, she was a bit of wild

child in her past as well.

She used to hang out with

Jimi Hendrix at one time.

And then she had gone

off to Zimbabwe.

She married a one-legged

race car driver,

but that didn't work out.

She came back and she became

a news reporter,

and it was while covering

a church event

that she ran into Keith.

She fell for him, and she

fell for God on the same day.

- The couple gave up life

in the fast lane.

They found God,

and Katy's destiny

as a preacher's child was set.

The contrast between

Katy's past and present

couldn't be more stark.

Born in 1984 in the sleepy

coastal village of

Goleta, California,

Katy grew up in a happy,

but sheltered, household,

utterly protected from

the outside world.

- I love Easter.

If Easter could be

every single holiday,

that would be perfect for me.

Because I remember

loving Easter so much,

dressing up in those

big dresses and the hats

and going to church,

and I'm like, yes

I look like an Easter egg.

I'm so happy right now.

I'm only ten years old.

I don't know.

I'm attracted to colors and

things that make people smile.

- Katy was born in 1984 in a

very quiet part of California.

- She comes from a really sweet

family, the all-American family.

- Katy has two siblings, a

brother David and sister Angela.

- She's very close with her

brother and sister.

- Her sister was

on the tour with us,

and she seemed

to interact with her a lot

and delegate stuff to her.

They're quite close

and they work together.

- When I tour,

I take my sister with me.

She's essential.

She doesn't care how

many records I've sold

or what I'm doing or

who I'm playing for or,

you know, yadda yadda yadda.

She puts me in my place.

She loves putting me

in my place actually.

And I... I fearfully respect her.

Because of that I have this,

like, fear, you know those...

That fear you have

of your parents

when you're little

of like, okay, yes.

It's kind of the same fear

I have of my sister.

We love each other,

from a distance.

I'm just kidding.

It's like Bodyguard.

No, it's not.

Hopefully, God, it's not.

- Christianity played

a huge part

in Katy Hudson's upbringing.

Her devout Pentecostal parents

had strict beliefs

and practices.

- She had a very

unusual childhood

and was sort of cocooned

from normal society.

- Both of her parents

are pastors.

They're very religious.

- They were extremely

strict parents,

but it was more the value

and the very strict

conditions that her

parents put on the children

that affected her somewhat.

- Coming from her

family religious background

and stuff, it must have been

extra hard to make it.

- The religious upbringing

that Katy had would have had

a tremendous impact

on her personality.

- Katy's come out publicly

and said quite a lot

of negative things

about her childhood.

She in fact once said she

didn't have a childhood.

- Katy's parents became

traveling ministers.

From the age of three,

her childhood was

spent traveling across

America as her parents

founded new churches.

With no fixed home, the family

lived in Oklahoma,

Arizona, and Florida.

Freelance ministry is not

a lucrative line of work.

The family gave their all to God

and often struggled financially.

- Between the ages of 3 and 11,

she actually traveled a lot

with the family because

they were traveling from town

to town preaching

this fire and brimstone.

You know, hell, Satan,

it was all very real to her.

- You've got to remember

that those sort of

quite serious religions like

the Pentecostal religion

that her parents are a part of,

lay down a very strict path.

You know, you have

to follow that path.

Katy's not a natural follower.

- In the Hudson household,

the devil was made out

to be a real person.

Her mother, in fact,

banned the word "lucky"

entirely from the

household because she said

it had connotations of

Lucifer, the devil.

- She did have to rebel

against her background

and her upbringing,

so it probably took

quite a lot of strength

for her to do it

and that's what we really

admire about her.

- It's surprising because

she certainly wears

some pretty full-on outfits.

- She's cheeky.

- Her past was a lot

more sort of good girl, really,

whereas now I think she's got

a bit of a naughty side.

- And there's

my cherry Chapstick.

We have a couple versions

of this Cherry Chapstick,

a larger one and then

the little sister one.

And I bring this out every night

because for some reason

even though "I Kissed a Girl"

has been playing for maybe

a year and a few months now,

people still forget

to bring their

Cherry Chapsticks to the show

It's very perplexing.

All these girls in

the front row forget

to bring their cherry Chapstick,

so then they miss

the opportunity to lock lips

with yours truly.

So luckily for them,

I bring my own.

I carry it thousands of miles.

It's been to Japan, it's been

to Moscow, it's been to London.

Well, we're in London.

It's been everywhere and

we have to get it cleaned

every single night because

sometimes girls

end up kissing it.

And at the end of the night,

I kiss a girl.

That's right.

I've kissed over

a hundred girls.

- By the time Katy was 11,

the Hudson family had settled

in Santa Barbara, California,

where she spent

her teenage years.

Despite Katy's

strict upbringing,

or perhaps because of it,

her quirky style began

to shine through before

she reached her teens.

- I remember when

I was in sixth grade.

I've always been obsessed

with clothes,

and as a little girl till now,

the obsession has

gotten a lot worse.

But I remember seeing

a fake vintage leopard coat

in an antique store.

I really wanted it, and

I think it was, like, $60,

which was a lot

of money and, you know,

I don't come from anything,

and that was a big present.

But I remember I opened

it up on Christmas day

and I got it and

I wore it in California,

which is not winter weather,

you know,

and it's this heavy,

like, leopard jacket.

And I remember after that

break of Christmas break

and then going back to school,

everybody wears

their new outfits and

they're so excited.

Everything is, like,

squeaky and glossy,

and everybody looks like

a walking model, you know,

and I wore my leopard coat,

and I got so made fun of.

All the kids hated it, but

I knew I was doing something

really good because all

the moms that were picking up

the kids were, like,

sweetheart, where did you

happen to get that coat?

It's fabulous.

And it was like,

you just wait and see.

You may only be 12,

but your 30-year old mom

loves it, and she might

know something.

She reads Vogue,

you read Teen People.

- Katy actually confessed

to Cosmo about how she wasn't

actually even allowed

to read Cosmo when she was

a teenage girl because

it had too much sex in there,

which is quite funny now

because she's been on

the cover so many times

She told us it was because

her parents didn't approve

of the sex content

and didn't like the fact

that there was a girl

on the front cover

with a bit of cleavage showing.

And now she is indeed one

of those girls with her cleavage

out on Cosmo and she loves it.

She feels empowered by it.

When I think about

who I want to go on the cover,

I always think about Katy,

and it's crazy

that as a teenager she

wasn't allowed to read it.

But it's come full circle now

and she's very pleased

with that transformation.

- Have you ever kissed a girl?

- I haven't. I'm saving myself

for Miley Cyrus.

- She's a wonderful role model.

She gets out there.

She does her own thing.

She actually made people

feel fine with her saying

that as a preacher's daughter

you've been saying that,

you know, I kissed a girl

and I liked it.

- It seems as though that was

an attention-grabbing thing

to talk about,

sort of very provocative,

but absolutely not when

you meet her and you can see

that this is absolutely her.

She's quirky.

- Actually, it's kind of one

of those things where, like,

you open up a magazine

and you look to your

significant other

and you're like, I'm not gonna

lie, if Scarlett Johansson

walked into the room

and she wanted to kiss me,

might let her.

I hope you're okay with that.

It's one of those, like,

that's my one.

And it talks about, like,

just like the magical beauty

of a woman and how,

like, special that is,

and how we can pretty

much do anything.

We are the dominant species.

- Katy's parents

weren't accepting,

especially after she came

out with songs like,

"I Kissed a Girl," which

the Hudsons actually publicly

decried as shameful

and disgusting.

- It was so daring for her

to do that and to make

other people feel good

about experimenting,

and I think that's a very

healthy role model to have.

- At the time, it was

really unheard of, you know,

this really sexy girl singing

about kissing girls.

And I thought,

oh, my God, that's so cool

- You think that maybe

the relationship between

Katy and her parents now

would be a little strained,

but they actually

all get on very well,

and her parents support her

in what she does.

- I think the "I Kissed

a Girl"s were never like,

ooh, let's see how I can stir up

the pot of scandalous, you know?

It was actually

just me telling my story

and that is how I see

the world, you know?

And that's kind of like

the funny, messed up way

I live my life, I guess, with

a dark kind of undertone...

Sarcastic, dark undertone.

Humor is so important

in my life.

Laughing is just, like,

it feels so good,

and it's a main ingredient

for, you know,

everything I do because

it can be really stressful,

and there can be a lot

of responsibilities.

And sometimes you just

gotta let it roll off your back

and have a laugh about it,

or turn it into

that kind of thing, like, oh,

what can you do, you know?

If I start to edit myself

and the things I'm saying,

then I don't think

the people that first

bought my record will

really know that

it's coming from an

honest place, you know?

I'm not trying to edit

myself for other people

and write a record

that other people want.

I'm writing a record

that I want.

- Katy Perry may have rebelled

against a Christian past,

but her upbringing

is undoubtedly responsible

in some part for

her overwhelming appeal.

Gospel music propelled

Katy into the music world,

and still remains at her core.

- Katy is still

religious to this day.

She has publicly said

that she believes in God.

- She has a tattoo that

says Jesus on one wrist.

- She got the tattoo

at the age of 18

to remind her where

she comes from.

- She hasn't had it removed,

so you have to assume

that there is a level

of faith there.

- She does have these

real traditional values,

but her career has been anything

but traditional, you know?

She's been quite outlandish.

- Although the

Pentecostal religion

would have been imprinted

on her, sort of whole psyche,

she's found her own way to

go through life,

and she seems to straddle

both her religious background

and being in

the pop world, which,

let's face it,

the music industry

can be quite a dirty world.

- She's been quite provocative

and sexy at times,

and that's what

we love about her.

- She's just so real,

and she's just...

She's just like this

normal girl that's happened

to follow her passion,

never give up.

You can really, really see

that in her career path.

- In one sense her religious

upbringing would have given her

a kind of inner strength,

but in another sense,

she would have also felt

quite naturally, well,

I'm going to follow my own path,

because she's a

very strong personality.

- When you do end up

in the spotlight,

there's still all those things

going on in relationships,

in friendships, in your family,

and you definitely

don't air them out as much,

or I never really did

in the first place much.

But that's where kind of like

my songwriting comes from,

is my own therapeutic moments

I need to have with myself

to get over a situation, or

get over a problem I'm having,

or deal with something

I'm going through.

I usually write a song about it.

And I've been through a lot.

- The natural music ability

which would make Katy a star

was apparent by the age of

13 when she began

to play the guitar

and write her own songs.

- The first times I started

singing was in church.

But then when I

started playing guitar,

I would go into the newspaper

and I would find, you know,

karaoke... not karaoke,

open mic sessions

and coffee shops that would

let anybody sign up to play,

although I was pretty

good at karaoke.

And I would go there and I would

just pull out my guitar

and play these little rough

drafts of songs

and get people's feedback and

really see if it was connecting,

if people really related to it,

or if they would even listen,

you know?

- Katy Hudson, as

she was known then,

has always been very,

very interested in music.

Her family called her

Katybird or the songbird

because she was just

always warbling away.

And it was about at the age

of nine that her mother

suggested she start

to get singing lessons,

and they quickly

noticed her talent.

- She was in a gospel choir,

and she is an accomplished

guitarist.

- Katy asked for

her first guitar at age 13,

which she received

for her birthday,

and she started writing songs

pretty much straightaway.

A lot of them were about

God and gospel songs,

but she did privately,

behind her parents' back,

also start writing

little tunes about boys

and normal teenage stuff.

- It would be a sad day for me

if I sang songs that I felt like

any other pop artist could just

put their vocals on or sing.

I'm happy to be pop.

I'm happy that the music

is very mainstream,

but I also need it

to be storytelling.

- With a talent for

translating personal pain

into professional triumph,

Katy unifies her audience who

relate to her autobiographical

lyrics on a personal level.

- She's very, very

good on stage.

She's worth seeing because,

like, it's... like, I don't like

when you go see a show and,

like, the artist doesn't

really connect with the crowd.

But she's always got

a story to tell,

and she's always quite funny

even though at every show

she says she's not

a very good public speaker,

it doesn't stop her.

- Lyrics are so important to me.

I mean, how many times

do you turn on the radio

and hear and song and

you're like, what in the...

What are they saying?

What... what is it

that they're saying?

I know they're talking

about the club and the beat

and the DJ and the dance,

but does it mean anything

at the end of the day, so...

- Katy Perry is not your

average manufactured act.

A lot of people think she

has nothing to do

with her own songwriting,

but actually in fact

she is very involved.

She does work with

other producers, of course,

however, all her lyrics

come from, you know,

real life experiences and

are very personal to her.

- Max Martin is a very big

songwriter from Sweden.

He helps me with melodies and

then I... and then I'll slap

all of my lyrics on top of it,

and for some reason,

a kid that's four years old

can sing it to a person

that's 85, my grandmother even.

- The queen of modern pop

is no stranger

to a suggestive song lyric,

but raw emotions are

the driving force behind

the Perry phenomenon.

- To my personal life and

in interviews and

when I sit down to talk

about things,

sometimes I don't give as

much detail as I used to,

but I think I am saving it

for the songs,

and the songs I'm just

gushing, you know?

- Katy won't always talk

about her personal experiences

in interviews, but she will talk

about it through her music.

- She tell a story

through her songs.

It's not just a song

for a song's sake.

You listen to her album

and you feel

like you've gone

through it all with her.

- At heart she's a naturally

creative person

as a singer songwriter,

and we know in art therapy

and music therapy,

how powerful they are

as tools at a therapeutic level.

- She seems to really relate

to people with her lyrics.

- She writes it herself and

then the lyrics are written

from personal experience.

You can totally imagine

it's about that breakup

and what she'd been through,

and that's why I love

her music so much.

Lyrics we all could cry

to sometimes

because we think about

a boy or a breakup

and we can put ourselves

completely in her shoes.

- She was kind of

doing her own therapy

by being creative, pouring

her heart into her lyrics.

That is a powerful way of sort

of moving yourself forward.

- During Katy's childhood,

the Hudson family

lived a sheltered life.

She and her two siblings

were not permitted

to watch cable channels

like MTV,

and pop music

was banned in the household.

- I didn't really have a whole

lot of MTV in my life

growing up, but I know that

when I did see

the bits and pieces I saw,

they were really, like,

powerful and it really

affected me,

and I kind of grew up always,

you know, having that

in the back of my mind saying,

oh, I want to be a part

of something like that.

- Katy was exposed to gospel

music only through her family.

She was actually banned

from watching TV,

she told us it was because

her parents didn't approve.

- She wasn't allowed

to watch any TV,

but obviously they

couldn't block everything out,

and so, you know as

she became a young teenager

and she went to friends'

places, she'd watch MTV.

- When I was a kid,

I remember getting a hold

of that "Jagged Little Pill"

record by Alanis Morissette.

I felt like I was the only

person going through whatever

I was going through and

then she sang songs

and wrote songs about it,

and I was like,

"okay, I'm not alone, great."

- Katy seems to have a lot

of different influences.

- She loved Alanis Morissette

which is quite at odds

with her where she's playing

the guitar

and she's singing

Christian songs.

She's a real country girl.

- Early style icons

were Gwen Stefani

and Shirley Manson in Garbage.

- Other influences included

Madonna, Joni Mitchell,

and Gwen Stefani in particular.

- She liked these sort

of rock star women.

That's why her career took

a while to progress.

It was about finding herself

and finding her sound.

- She's obviously

this pop phenomenon now.

She tried to go down

that slightly more

underground route first.

- It took her a while to do

that because she did

have to rebel against her

background and her upbringing.

So it probably took quite

a lot of strength for her to do

it and that's what we

really admire about her.

- I would have to add

to that Madonna

has been a real

inspiration for her.

Certainly you can see

the kind of 80s,

"Desperately Seeking Susan" in

Katy quite a lot of the time.

- I want to be that what is

she doing next artist.

I really do because all

the people that I am inspired

by are those types of artists,

so...

Like Freddy Mercury, Madonna.

Everybody's always like,

what are they gonna do next,

or what did he do next, or...

You know what I'm saying?

So I definitely want

to push the envelope

and just play music, good music.

I'm a female pop,

you know, person.

I feel like sometimes

you're missing those females

in the pop music industry

that actually bring it.

- The first time she

heard Freddy Mercury's voice,

it was just like time

stood still for her.

- You wouldn't imagine

her liking somebody

as rock as Queen,

but she really did.

- I had that moment when

I was 15, and I had come

from this sheltered upbringing

and didn't know really the name

of a Madonna song, you know?

I didn't know really any

of that type of stuff

that everybody was

just like, duh, to.

And my best friend put on

a soundtrack to our day

as we were, you know,

raiding her closet,

and I remember

"Killer Queen" came on.

And it was like I heard

the song and we were, you know,

trying on these dresses on

top of her bed

in this full length mirror,

and this song came on,

and I just, like, had to sit

down on the edge of the bed

and listen to these lyrics,

and I was just like,

oh, my gosh, I never

thought that anybody

could write lyrics like these,

especially a guy.

Brian May from the band

Queen is here,

gonna watch the show tonight,

so I'm a little

nervous actually.

- We're gonna invite him...

- No, you're not.

- Yes. He was talking

to me about playing.

- No, you're not. I'll throw up.

I'll... I won't be

able to perform.

( wretches )

- All right. Pink flamingos.

- I saw that movie.

- Pink flamingos. Everybody

say John Waters on three.

- One, two, three...

John Waters!

- Go, stretch, go!

( cheering )

- One, two, three.

( cheering )

- Brian May came

to a show in London.

I had actually been

stalking him and, you know,

having some of the people

that I worked with

send emails saying, oh, by

the way, we're in town again.

F you ever have a night off,

we'd love for you to come

out and see the show.

I was really nervous when

he actually decided

he was going to show up,

but he was lovely

and supportive and cool and

hung out with my bandmates,

you know, when he probably has

a million other things to do.

- By the time she was 15,

Katy Hudson's passion

for music had grown.

Chaperoned by her parents,

she began taking trips

to Nashville, Tennessee

to pursue a career in

the Christian music industry.

- Katy left school at age

15 when she went off

to Nashville to make

her first album.

- She was taking trips

to Nashville and exploring

the music scene when she

was 15 years old.

She went back and forth.

- She did end up finishing her

high school diploma later on.

- She got signed by a label,

then she released

a Christian album.

- Katy's first album,

Katy Hudson,

was released in 2001.

It was gospel music only.

- It wasn't successful.

- A Christian gospel album,

and sold, like, 200 copies.

- Unfortunately,

the label went bust.

- It was just a case of finding

herself, and I think that's

why it was great that

she didn't make it

in those early years with

those country albums,

because that wasn't her,

and this is her now

and it's really empowering

that she can be that.

- Hi everyone.

( cheering )

- This is kind of awesome.

( cheering )

- Can you hear me all

the way back there?

( cheering )

- Listen, so this is the

thing that's gonna happen.

I have to act like

a professional on

this pink carpet for a second,

and after I'm done acting

like a professional,

I'm gonna come out

and get wild with you, okay?

( cheering )

- Disappointed but undaunted

by the failure

of her first album,

Katy Hudson adopted

a new surname,

abandoned the gospel genre,

and age just 17,

headed to Los Angeles

to pursue her dream of

stardom on the pop circuit.

- I started out playing

in this place

in Los Angeles called

Hotel Café.

A lot of musicians

come through there,

a lot of singer songwriters.

But you never know

who's going to show up.

You can go into, like,

a bar and play a song

and not have anybody listen and

you really kind of made it.

- After her first album's

non-event, she wasn't deterred.

She decided to go to California

and to pursue a career

in pop music.

- She'd actually been

working really hard

behind the scenes for many

years and trying to make it.

- Katy changed her last

name from Hudson to Perry,

which is her

mother's maiden name,

because she was worried that

she would get associated

with the Hollywood

actress Kate Hudson,

because she was convinced

that she would become famous.

- After her arrival in L.A.,

Katy was introduced to one

of America's foremost

producers, Glen Ballard,

who was responsible for

Alanis Morissette's

chart-topping hit,

"Jagged Little Pill."

- Katy met with Glen and

he was straightaway

convinced that

she would be a star.

Things started going

really well at first.

She was writing heaps

and heaps of songs,

and it looked like she would

get an album out.

However, things stalled

quite quickly, and the next

few years would be incredibly

frustrating for Katy.

- Unable to secure a record

deal though Island Def Jam,

Katy subsequently signed

with Columbia records,

but they too let her go.

- Originally her managers

wanted her to front a band

in a Joan Jett style,

like a rock and roll band,

and that didn't work out,

and they tried

different incarnations.

- She was trying

lots of different tacks

to get her music out there.

- Given that her management

company also managed the B-52s,

it's not that much of a leap

to think that that's

probably originally how

they'd envisioned her

as something more underground.

- They kept saying you could

be the next Avril Lavigne

or Kelly Clarkson, and

she didn't want to be.

She just wanted

to be the first Katy.

- By 2006, having been dropped

by three record labels,

Katy was broke and on the edge.

- The guys that really

didn't understand

my artistic vision

were like, no, we...

We're not gonna put

her record out.

And I played my songs,

I kept playing my songs,

and what was responding

were the people.

They were there for me.

And people were

supporting these songs

and they were telling me this...

That this was

the right thing to do.

- She had a period in 2006

where she was quite down

and she was struggling

to get her first album out.

She admits she went out drinking

quite a bit at that stage.

- She's not had an easy journey.

She's worked hard

for her success.

- There's that definite sense

of incredible determination.

- Katy is a billion trillion

percent dedicated to her craft.

- If you want to succeed

in anything,

you've got to just

absolutely dedicate

your life to it, and she has.

- Katy's undeniable talent

and willful determination

to succeed paid off in 2007

when she was signed by

the Capitol Music Group.

By November that year,

a digital release

of "You're So Gay"

was unleashed.

- It's important for me

to come out and support

Katy Perry because I've been

a big fan of hers

for a long time, before Madonna.

In case you don't know,

Madonna gave her a shout out

a few times saying that one

her songs, "You're So Gay,"

was her favorite song

of the moment.

But I wrote about Katy first,

and I think I introduced

her to Madonna.

- For Madonna to know somebody's

first and last name, what?

Madonna. What are you thinking?

I reached out for

my inhaler most definitely.

When I heard that I was like,

ooh, I can't breathe,

I can't breathe,

I can't breathe.

So most definitely amazing.

- She did "You're So Gay,"

free released in 2007.

- "You're So Gay" was a free

download on her MySpace page.

It was received pretty well

by her followers at the time.

- The debut single,

"You're So Gay"

generated some media attention,

but failed to chart.

- In 2008, Katy teamed up

with power pop writing

duo Max Martin and Dr. Luke,

the collaborators

behind the hits of

Britney Spears,

Pink, and Taylor Swift.

- The label suggested

that Katy get in the studio

with a couple of

really happening producers,

Dr. Luke and Max Martin.

- She walked into a

rehearsal studio and said,

you know, that's it, I'm going

to be part of the problem.

And they said, what do you

mean, and she said,

I just want to make

sure that this happens,

so I'm going to be a pop star.

And that was, like,

the moment she decided

to become Katy Perry almost.

- They had quickly come up

with about

three different songs, one of

which was "I Kissed a Girl."

- The California dreamer

had achieved her goal.

In true fairy tale fashion,

she rebranded herself

and exploded onto the mainstream

with the 2008 release

of the infectious single,

"I Kissed a Girl."

- I would like to thank

Dr. Luke for ordering lunch

for us and for

setting up the hookah,

and for calling the tech

when the computer crashes,

and for making me rich!

I love you!

You're a pain in the ass!

- The single provide to be

one of the most infectious

power-pop anthems of

the decade, and established

Katy's metamorphosis

into America's pop sweetheart,

and the world's

best-selling star.

- It was, you know,

something that I didn't think

ever could really

happen because, I mean,

my record only came out,

like, five months ago.

I should still be at

home eating mac and cheese

watching the VMAs,

but I hosted it.

It was larger than life.

- It was only when she

did something as controversial

as singing about kissing

a girl, that she made it.

- It's got that sort

of salacious vibe to it,

but as her career

has progressed,

that song has made

a lot more sense.

- It's a massive, massive

commercial success.

- Quite often I will hear

of musicians and singers many,

many years before

they make it big,

and they'll be a bit of a buzz,

but I literally didn't hear

of her until that summer, and

it was just Katy's summer.

- "I Kissed a Girl" was

instantly a worldwide hit.

- It went to number one,

and we heard it everywhere.

- It was like, bang,

overnight success.

- I'm gonna call my friends

and say,

please don't order

without me, I'm starving.

And by the way, I got nominated.

Booyah.

- Katy's first mainstream album,

"One of the Boys,"

shot into the top ten

in America,

and produced a string of hits,

including "Hot and Cold,"

and "Waking Up in Vegas."

Katy's stardom has been

soaring ever since.

- When I wrote

"Waking Up in Vegas,"

it was just basically about

getting into trouble.

I don't know if you

know anything about Vegas,

but it's a place where

you get into trouble.

You probably don't write home

about it necessarily.

And usually you take your

best friend or your boyfriend

or, you know, that person you

can have trouble with,

and you really

can't apologize afterwards,

even if you look like crap

the next day or you ended up

having to bail yourself out

of some kind of situation.

It's a fun kind of party

anthemic song

just about having a

great time, you know?

- By the end of 2008,

"One of the Boys"

had reached platinum success,

and Katy's professional career

continued to progress

full steam ahead.

- Are you confident

this evening,

are you confident

about your chances?

- No. Not at all.

It's very competitive

in my... in my category.

- Are you a fan of the Brits,

is it something

you've watched before?

- I haven't watched it because

I live in the States,

but I know...

I know it's important.

I know it's, you know,

as important as the Grammys,

and to be a foreigner on,

you know, be a foreigner

here and to be nominated is

a big deal, so thanks.

- Six MTV Music Awards and

two Grammy Award nominations

later, the multifaceted

artist began writing tracks

for her career-defining

"Teenage Dream" album.

- I don't feel completely

different than when I started.

I feel like I have a lot

to prove still,

and I still have that ambition

and that drive that I had,

you know, when I didn't

have anybody

or when I didn't know what

was going to happen

in the future, if I was going

to make it or anything.

I still kind of fell that

way of, like, oh, this is great,

I had a great hit record and

I know that I'm good at this,

and this is my gift, but I know

I have to work at it

and continue to kind of

keep shaping it and not just,

like, let it sit out and,

you know, oh, now,

I'm famous and I have 12 people

doing it all for me, you know?

No. I can't do that type

of stuff, or it won't work.

Like, you know, all that stuff

I've been going through

and perspective I see life now

and the relationships

I have with people, you know,

all that's kind of bubbling

to the top, and it's going

to spill over

and it's definitely going

to seep into all of my songs.

I guess, you know,

I'm over my period.

I'm... I know how

to handle boys now.

Actually, I don't even

mess with boys anymore.

I mess with men, you know?

- Katy's highly publicized

romances with celebrity bad boys

have always ensured

she dominates the headlines.

- I'm doing a ton of festivals,

and usually will actually have

a couple of my girlfriends out

because I told them come out.

I'm gonna go and do

a couple festivals,

and I'll be backstage,

and there's lot of

hot, hot band boys hanging out.

You should come and

you can creep on them.

And we get into trouble, yeah.

We definitely do.

- Katy first met British actor

and controversial comedian

Russell Brand in 2009

during filming for

a cameo appearance for the movie

"Get Him to the Greek."

- Distinction and

difference from each other,

I think is really,

really important,

and genuine affection, I think.

Genuine affection

but difference, I think,

creates good chemistry.

- Katy first encountered

Russell Brand in the movie

"Get Him to the Greek."

She was filmed in a cameo

role where she actually had

to kiss Russell, but it got cut,

so it never appeared

in the final movie.

- I nearly choked on

my coffee when I first heard

that she was going out

with Russell Brand.

- It was weird when they

got together actually,

because knowing them

separately, you would never,

ever, ever put them together.

- They looked like such

incredibly different characters.

You know, he always has the dark

and kind of seedy side to him

and she was this kind

of fresh, you know, vibrant,

energetic pop princess

who really knows her own mind,

but she still had

that kind of very fresh

and innocent look about her.

- He looked like this kind

of challenge and this guy

that she could help,

and we know she's

so positive and amazing.

- So in one sense it

was kind of like,

whoa, they're going

to make it work.

- She took quite a fancy to him,

but, you know, he was trying to,

like, get her to go out with

him that night, and she said,

no, you're going to have

to wine and dine me,

and it sort of developed

from there.

- Russell Brand achieved

notoriety in Britain

as a television host

and stand-up comedian.

- Who is using this as an

opportunity shoplift?

Yeah.

I definitely would because

a lot of the security

is distracted at a time

like this, so yeah, feel free.

- Russell was really fun

and I thought he was

quite charming to begin with.

- Working in London since

I was 18, I've known Russell

on the scene before

he moved to L.A.

To say that he was a lothario

is an understatement, you know.

He would leave venues

and clubs with like,

four or five girls.

- He has a really

short attention span

and gets bored easily,

and just go, go, go.

- Katy's kissing scene was

cut from "Get Him to the Greek,"

but in September 2009,

the on screen passion

bubbled over into real life

when the couple's paths

crossed again at

the MTV Video Music Awards.

- I don't think she realized

the impact that

that would have on me, like...

Because it was sort of,

like, you know, there's not

a person in my life

that I haven't

at some point sulked about

and not spoken to for

at least a few days.

But it was like reaching

back into your childhood,

taking the injured nincompoop

of the boy I was

and sort of putting

a laurel upon his brow.

It was, like, marvelous,

and plus she looked amazing.

- They met at the MTV Awards

and they had a play fight and,

you know, I bet he would

have been very funny and fun

and that would have been really

nice and refreshing for her.

Because I suppose

that most guys that she meets

are kind of, like,

a bit intimidated by her.

- She is a feisty woman.

She's not going

to choose a doormat.

She would be utterly

bored with a man

who followed her around

like a puppy.

She's a challenge herself,

so of course she's going

to choose challenging men.

- He prefers to sort of

date a string of women.

He has had problems with sex

and passion addiction.

- Now, another aspect,

of course, to that kind

of womanizing is the sense

of the thrill that they get.

Russell has spoken

about that very honestly.

Like a love pirate,

he kind of made his way

through all these sort of women,

and at some level, women

are attracted to that.

- They both seemed to fall

in love with each other

very quickly,

very deeply, madly.

- Katy wouldn't talk about it

as such, but she couldn't

resist kind of talking about

it a little bit

because she was so happy and

she was planning their wedding.

- The couple became engaged

on New Year's Eve 2009

while on holiday

in Rajasthan, India.

- We're getting married.

It's going to be somewhere

fabulous, but I can't say.

It's definitely not

in India because we

already went there,

I was already engaged,

I was there for two weeks.

Over it.

Japan!

- British comedian Russell Brand

and American pop star Katy Perry

have tied the knot.

The couple has issued

a statement confirming

they were married Saturday

in a private

and spiritual ceremony

in northern India.

A Christian minister

and long-time friend

of Perry's family helped

the couple exchange vows.

The wedding was reportedly

held at a luxury resort

in a tiger reserve attended

by family members

and close friends.

Security was tight at

the hotel with private guards

stationed there, and

at other nearby hotels.

The couple and their

guests started arriving

in Jaipur for the six-day

celebration on Wednesday.

Brand proposed to Perry

in the historic Indian city

back in January.

Ross Simpson,

the Associated Press.

- The real Russell Brand,

wherever the hell he is

has been tamed. - He has.

- With dog sweets.

- I was just happy

for them both.

- I was, like, Russell and Katy,

okay, getting married,

that's cool.

- They seemed really cute

and really loved up,

so of course you would like

to see someone that you know

happy, if it's not with you,

with somebody else.

- Anything that flagged

up to me that they were not

going to work out was

the fact that they had

that huge over-the-top

wedding which,

when people put everything

into show, often underneath

it it's because there's nothing

really there to support it,

and they feel

they overcompensate

at a psychological level

by showing to the world how

big their love is when

actually it's quite fragile.

- They hadn't known each

other that long,

but she was just feeling

this romance,

and she fell totally

in love with him, and him her,

and they went for it.

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- Sorry. Sorry.

- Every day is a laugh

with this crazy ass one.

Let's go eat.

- Bye-bye.

- In 2010, Katy returned

with yet another hit machine.

The album "Teenage Dream"

took her career

to record-breaking heights

when she became

the first female artist

in history to produce

five number one hits

from a single album.

- I am on

the battlefield myself,

but I'm just singing pop songs.

But yeah, I'm away from

my hubby every once in a while

and we use Skype and iChat and,

you know, that really helps.

And so I just hope

that everybody can find,

you know, a great Christmas

and, you know, be blessed.

- In 2010, "Teenage Dream"

was released,

and that basically

eclipsed everything

that had come before it

as far as Katy's recording

career was concerned.

- Her second album, that was

phenomenally successful

in a record-breaking way.

She is the only female artist

who have got

five number one singles

from an album ever.

That was just an amazing

accomplishment for Katy,

especially at such a young age.

The only other person to

do that was Michael Jackson.

So it was crazy successful

and she's still flying.

- Previously in the past

years I've had a nomination

for best female pop performance,

and I was nominated

for that award this year,

third time, plus three more.

So I feel a lot

of love coming my way.

I feel like I made

the right decisions

with the record and, you know,

once again, like,

my gut feeling, my instincts

have paid off for me, so...

- Riding high on the phenomenal

success of "Teenage Dream,"

in February 2011, Katy launched

a second extravagant

world tour, "California Dreams."

- I think that's what

I'm all about is having fun

and making people realize

that music can still be

very fun and entertaining.

And I do like to, you know,

be... have my serious points,

but generally, life is really

serious and it's nice to kind

of take a breather from

that for an hour and a half

when you come to the show.

- In 2011 Katy embarked

on her second major tour.

This one was called

California Dreams.

It was 123 dates across

three continents.

- It was absolutely huge

in terms of the size

of the arenas, which ranged

from about 6,000 to 12,000.

The scope of it was

mind-blowing, really.

- It was just incredible.

It took her a year to do.

- You've never seen

anything like it.

She had eight juggernauts with

the stage in them,

and then she had about

ten tour buses.

She had 80 crew which

were her riggers, sparks,

she had a boatload of

dancers, choreographers.

She had about four costumiers,

a masseuse, a personal trainer.

She had her two managers with

her, her sister,

her P.A. and a full catering.

- When I tour I take

a few people with me.

My band and all the productions

and things like that.

A lot of times I usually

ask for baby wipes backstage

because they're great

for makeup,

they're great for when you

don't have a shower,

and they're good

for other things.

And I love having a humidifier

in my room at all times.

- I was hired at Katy's dancer.

I stood next to her

because we're very

similar height, so as we

enter the stage,

she was right next to me,

and she was shaking.

I grabbed her hand,

and I looked at her

and I was like,

you gonna be all right?

And she, like, in this,

like, cute little

American accent, she's like,

yeah, I know, I know.

And she just, like,

that steely focus,

and she smashed it.

- And she has this persona

of being a semi-50s pinup,

but there's

a lot of double entendre

and innuendo

in her performances.

- She had a huge prop,

she came out with

this massive lipstick,

like riding up with,

like, a big helmet on.

So she was on this Chapstick

that looked a male sexual organ.

So I'm remember on rehearsals,

like, she came riding

and she's, you know,

like, oh, yeah, oh, my God,

it's so good, it's so hot.

So, you know, we all

thought it was brilliant.

- Katy had fireworks in

the background,

so the pyrotechnic that

we had to use on stage,

we had these backpacks

that looked like

Ninja Turtle backpacks,

these circular things,

and they have fireworks

that spin around and create

a giant Catherine wheel

behind you.

If it goes wrong,

it could be dangerous.

They were quite scary.

They made me nervous

just before the show,

but as soon as we got out there,

she lit up the whole crowd.

The moment she went

out there, thousands of people

in that audience,

they were going crazy.

- There is nothing like

the sound of 12,000 people

all singing at the top

of their lungs.

That is, like, so stupendous

it's impossible

to kind of articulate.

- My aim is just to have a

fun time and make sure that,

you know, these kids go

away having a good time,

feeling good inside, feeling

like they were entertained.

Maybe they learned

something about who I am and

my music, or they were

inspired in a creative way.

- When it comes

to rocking fashion,

Katy's inimitable style

is celebrated almost

as much as the music itself.

- Katy is definitely

not a slave to fashion.

She completely creates

her own look.

In fact, I say she's a kind

of zeitgeist of fashion.

- Not many women could get

away with what she wears.

- She is like a kind of

kaleidoscope explosion

of color and popular culture.

- She is completely that

showgirl with whipped cream

shooting out of her bosoms,

you know

That is Katy.

- Katy is often seen on

the front row of shows.

She has a huge relationship

with Chanel.

She is especially

close to Karl Lagerfeld

and always on his front row.

- I have been researching a

lot of the vintage Chanel.

Everywhere I go, I was just

in Berlin, I was just in London,

I always go to

the vintage stores

and ask for all, like,

the 1990s vintage Chanel

if you have it.

So I think that

the pieces that you buy

from Chanel only

appreciate in value.

It's kind of like a man's watch.

- Her style is kind

of confusing and chaotic,

and it changes all the time.

- She uses style

to express herself,

and she uses it to cheer

herself up as well, you know.

When you're feeling down,

if you put on a crazy frock

that's got strawberries

all over it,

it's gonna make you feel better.

- You know, when a girl

gets a new outfit,

it gives her this extra oomph.

And when I get a new outfit,

I usually wear it the same day

and I don't know what it is.

It's just like

that new dress makes you feel

fun and alive and vibrant.

Katy looks like

a Hollywood starlet

from the 1940s and she dresses

her curves in that way.

But also she's

very reminiscent to me

of Vivian Leigh and Greta Garbo.

She says that the 1940s is

the best style of clothes on her

- She does the done up look

so well, and she kind of

has this bit of an

old school feel about her.

- It's a bit like

a Dita Von Teese look.

- She really bring that

50s look, the Dita Von Teese,

the pale skin and the flicky

eyelashes, you know.

A lot of girls are caught up

in the fake tan

and the very fake look,

whereas Katy, you know,

she's more natural and

she's got the pale skin.

She's more of like... she's

almost like an English rose,

but she does like

the really precise makeup

and the 50s look.

- Her makeup is pretty heavy.

She hates to go bare faced.

- Her stage makeup takes

at least two hours to apply.

- It would take her roughly

about two hours to get ready,

but she'd get ready

for different things.

- Like she would normally

arrive to the venue

at about 4:00, and then

she'd sort of semi get ready,

like, sort of Katy Perry light,

and wear a little body

con outfit.

And then she'd go and meet

a load of fans

and do a meet and greet

with them,

and then she'd go back

into her dressing room

and do the full-on

Katy Perry thing

and come out at about

7:00, Perry'd up.

- She does the brightly

colored costumes

and hair and

she's really pared that back,

and she's really calmed it down.

I like now that

she's changed her look

a little bit to become a

bit more sophisticated.

- She has definitely grown up,

and her style evolution

shows that as well.

She's a serious artist.

She's got nothing to prove.

She's successful

and she looks great.

- In December 2011,

a mere 14 months

after exchanging vows in India,

Russell Brand filed for divorce

citing irreconcilable

differences.

- The news broke on

New Year's Day,

and you really felt for her

because you could tell

she was totally in love with him

and wanted to make it work.

- It all fell apart

because they just simply

came from such

very different worlds.

And then to add insult

to injury,

everyone discovered that

she was dumped by text.

- I was shocked, but he can

be quite a nasty person.

- That's not really a manly

thing to do though, is it?

- She found herself lying

on the bathroom floor

considering whether

to end it all.

Very callous and just awful.

Poor Katy.

- What that tells you at

a psychological level

is you think I was

only worth a text,

and that is

incredibly devastating.

So it's no surprise that

that breakup was so painful

for Katy in particular.

- I needed to do a lot

of self-reflection

because I went through

a difficult time in my life,

and so I needed to go inside

and do a lot of work

and therapy and mending.

I went through the transition,

and I did a cleanse for,

like, three months, a mind and

body and soul type of cleanse.

And it made my life

so much better

and gave me more perspective and

helped me live very consciously.

- In July 2012, Katy made

the leap to the big screen

when her biopic movie

"Part of Me" was released.

- I think it was important

for me to leave some of

the more difficult things

in the film so that

it wasn't just a

narcissistic fanfare film

about how great I am.

I think it was important

to show that there are

obstacles and problems

in people's lives,

and it's okay if you have them,

you just have to overcome them.

- Following the collapse

of her marriage,

Katy was ready to start

a new chapter.

In October 2012,

she found time to support

Barack Obama's

re-election campaign.

The following month,

Billboard announced

that she would take home

the Woman of the Year award.

The star also sat

the rumor mills buzzing

when she began dating

fellow musician, John Mayer.

- Your no one until

some lets you down.

We live in this time

right now where

everybody' expectations are

so astronomically high,

that everybody is

settling, quote unquote.

To be with anybody is to settle,

because it really means settling

for not being by yourself.

- When I first heard that

Katy was dating John Mayer,

I just thought, oh, no,

not another one.

- He's got a bad reputation

for being a naughty boy.

- When you look at

the psychology of relationships,

the relationship post-divorce

is most likely to fail,

and that's because people

are obviously harboring

a lot of emotional baggage

and they haven't quite

dealt with it.

- So it's no surprise that

with Katy and John

you've got that sort of

start then stop then

start again relationship.

- I'm very monogamous,

and so once I decide

I'm going to like someone,

I like them for a long time.

And usually I don't do...

I don't...

Usually I have not done dates.

I do a lot of,

like, communication,

talking, phone or email.

- 2013 brought a new chapter

of optimism to Katy's life.

Adding a further title to

her list of achievements,

the singer/songwriter

was appointed

as UNICEF's Goodwill Ambassador.

- I'm very excited

to take on this responsibility

and this role to be able

to take all the attention

that I have and all

the spotlight and shine it on

the children that

need to be illuminated

and highlighted and saved

and helped.

UNICEF in particular

was special to me

because I took a trip with them.

Whatever I decide to

do whether it's be a part

an organization or a brand

or anything I do,

it's because I've had

an experience with them.

I saw all these children

interacting with each other.

There is so much

love between them.

There is so much compassion,

and they don't have anything.

They don't have any

material possessions.

They don't have

any social status.

It's an unconditional love.

I want to wash my hands too.

I was really inspired to write

the song "Unconditionally,"

seeing these children

just have the currency of

love between them.

- After record-setting

success and personal loss,

in October 2013,

the multi-faceted star

struck back with the release

of her fourth album, "Prism."

- Well, the new record is a

very self-reflective record.

It's a record that was

influenced by me letting

a lot of positivity

into my life,

a lot of light into my life,

especially after coming through

a dark period and a dark time.

And so, you know,

I think the record covers

a lot of hope and a lot

of joy, a lot of strength.

Basically I called it

"Prism" because I let a lot

of light into my life.

It influenced all the songs

and now I get to beam it back

out into the listener.

So I feel very prismatic

and full of these

wonderful colors, and I just

kind of like to be a light.

- Katy Perry's rise to the top

is a true story of inspiration.

Whether touring the globe,

or launching

an out-of-this-world fragrance,

the reigning queen of

pop continues to conquer.

- I'm going to be a crazy fruit

cat lady when I get older.

No husband, just 20 cats,

in my muumuu

that's brightly

covered in fruit.

- Katy Perry is one of

the greatest female artists of

the 21st century,

and ten years from now

her music will definitely

be around.

- Katy will be around as long

as she wants to be around,

but whether she wants to

or not, I'm not sure.

I think she really would

like the traditional

marriage and kids at

some point as well.

- She's forming a brand,

so we're just gonna see

a new kind of horizon

of Katy Perry.

Gone will be the kind

of dressing up as a snowman

on stage or having flashing

lights on a swimming costume.

It will be much more about

a screen goddess and a siren.

I think she will

take herself into that phase.

- I'd like to start

a small fashion line,

but very small,

I think, for now.

And I would like

to be a mom one day.

That's a challenge, I'm sure.

And I'd like to make

an acoustic record.

That would be a challenge.

- Katy's legacy will

be the bubblegum pop star

with a real heart.

- Her music will be her

legacy for years to come.

- How you doing, Times Square?

I'm not all great.

There might be moments

of greatness,

but they are very hard worked.

Thank you so much for

believing in my weirdness.

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