I'm a natural-born glamour ninja - and I like it: Katy Perry on her unique style

The I Kissed A Girl singer on fashion, her strict 宗教的な しつけ, how she went to 広大な／多数の／重要な lengths to fool her family into thinking she'd eloped in Las Vegas and why she's planning to grow old gracefully.

By Jon Wilde for The Mail on Sunday

Updated: 10:51 BST, 21 July 2009

'I 計画（する） to grow old gracefully. I'm not planning to be a mad, drunken old woman,' says Katy Perry

Katy Perry has never been the most understated of pop starlets. Since her 議論の的になる 粉砕する-攻撃する，衝突する 選び出す／独身 I Kissed A Girl she has developed a knack for attracting attention wherever she goes. Her idea of dressing 負かす／撃墜する is to turn up dressed as an ice-cream 反対／詐欺 or a fairground carousel.

Her career can be read as a 反乱 against her strict 宗教的な しつけ. Growing up in Santa Barbara, California, she was the middle child of ex-hippies turned travelling 大臣s, and started out singing gospel before switching to pop.?

Her 打開 （機の）カム in 2007 with Ur So Gay. I Kissed A Girl followed last summer, hitting No 1 in 20 countries and going on to sell over six million copies. Her album One of the Boys has 達成するd sales of over two million.

Now 24, she is dating Gym Class Heroes singer Travis McCoy (they broke up 簡潔に earlier this year) and lives in Los Angeles.

My motto has always been: live life to the 十分な because at the end you're dead.

But I'm starting to mellow a bit. I still believe in taking 危険s with my music, but I've realised that I can't party like I used to and 推定する／予想する to remain 焦点（を合わせる）d on my work. I've seen too many people live that way and almost 難破させる their careers.

That's not going to happen to me. I'm still 十分な on, but these days I see the 知恵 in having a good night's sleep.

I'll never date another golfer

These days I'm attracted to creative men - musicians or artists who are able to 表明する 激しい emotions through their work. How they look is 第２位 to how they 刺激する me mentally. In high school, hunky was good enough for me and that's how I ended up in a 関係 with a golfer who was just about to turn プロの／賛成の. I had no 利益／興味 in ゴルフ and he had no 利益／興味 in music. We had 絶対 nothing in ありふれた. It was doomed to fail and it did after a few months. No more golfers for me.?

My 宗教的な しつけ was comically strict - even the Dirt Devil vacuum cleaner was banned.?

In our house, no one was 許すd to 言及する to devilled eggs. We had to call them angelic eggs. We were never 許すd to 断言する. I'd get into trouble just for 説 'hell no'. If you dropped a 大打撃を与える on your toe in our house you had to say something like 'Jiminy Christmas'. The only music we were 許すd to listen to was gospel. No wonder I rebelled.?

All I 手配中の，お尋ね者 out of life was a 攻撃する，衝突する 記録，記録的な／記録する and a 広大な／多数の／重要な pair of boobs.?

I woke up one morning and I had both. I had finally arrived. Then I had to move on; my 見通し board had to 拡大する. It doesn't mean I'm out for world 支配. But I want to continue to make the 肉親，親類d of music that connects 堅固に with people, that 表明するs emotions they've always 手配中の，お尋ね者 to put into words.?

On 行う／開催する／段階: The singer 成し遂げるing at the Shepherds Bush Empire last month

The most preposterous thing I ever did was 参加する a 偽の marriage 儀式 in Las Vegas.

I was 21 at the time. My boyfriend and I were on a crazy 週末 in Vegas and, on a whim, we decided it would be a fun idea to pretend to get married just to freak out friends and family. We bought a wedding dress and 控訴 at a thrift 蓄える／店, 選ぶd up a wedding cake and went into the Little White Wedding Chapel to explain to the priest what we 手配中の，お尋ね者. He seemed 罰金 about it and even made up a 偽の wedding 証明書. In the photos our 直面するs are 説, 'Why are we doing this crazy thing?' We sent the photos off to everyone we knew and they all 完全に f reaked out. The whole stupid experience was the inspiration behind my 選び出す／独身 Waking Up In Vegas.

The thing I love most about England is the breakfast.

Travelling through Europe all I get is the dreaded 大陸の breakfast. To me, a roll and a glass of orange juice doesn't 追加する up to breakfast. That's barely a 軽食. As a girl with an appetite, I look 今後 to coming to England so I start the day with sausage, eggs and beans, and put some meat 支援する on my bones.?

If called upon I could still amaze people with my skateboarding 技術s.?

I took it up when I was 13 and spent all day at the skateboard park with a friend of 地雷 who was so good that she ended up going プロの／賛成の. I wasn't やめる so good, but I could easily 扱う a half-麻薬を吸う, where you're skateboarding almost vertically. I gave it up because I was scuffing my 膝s too much and I didn't like the idea of breaking bones.?

I'm a natural-born glamour ninja.

From an 早期に age I've always loved the idea of surprising people with my outfits. I change from day to day. On a Monday I could be a Betty Boop 人物／姿／数字. On a Tuesday I'll be Uma Thurman in 低俗雑誌 Fiction. On a Wednesday I could be wearing S&M rubber. The next day I'll look like the innocent girl next door. Then there are days when I don't want the attention so I'll dress 普通は in ジーンズs and T-shirt. When I pop 負かす／撃墜する the grocery 蓄える／店 to buy some milk I leave all my glittery 衣装s at home. Most of the time I welcome attention, but there are days when I need to keep a healthy distance from it.

Antiques are my greatest passion.?

From the age of eight, my dad would wake me up 早期に on a Saturday morning and we'd go to garage sales or to the house of someone who'd recently passed away whose family were selling everything. I'd fi nd a purple glass doorknob from the Twenties and it would be going for a song. I have a good 注目する，もくろむ. I'm not looking to make any 抱擁する 利益（をあげる）s. I'm just drawn to old, 井戸／弁護士席-made stuff that has its own personality. Wherever I am in the world, you can usually find me rummaging through antique shops. Nothing （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域s the thrill of wandering into a shop in the middle of Australia and 選ぶing up the vintage handbag of my dreams for a few dollars.?

I'll try just about any experience at least once.?

The next thing on my 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） is 'dining in the dark'. This is where you eat out in a 黒人／ボイコットd-out restaurant and you're served by blind people. It's very popular in the US 権利 now. As you're eating in pitch 黒人／ボイコット you're not 関心d with what it looks like, so you taste it like never before. The whole experience 高くする，増すs all your senses. It's like you're blind, and the blind waiters guide you through the meal. I'm not sure if the food is cooked in the dark. That would be crazy.

Food and 着せる／賦与するs are the perfect marriage.

I've always been obsessed with fruit, so a lot of my 衣装s have featured things like strawberry hair clips and watermelon earrings. More recently I've started to 会社にする／組み込む real food into my outfits. At the Japanese MTV ビデオ Awards I wore a leotard embroidered with pieces of sushi. People either look at me and 株 my enjoyment or else they 投票（する） for me in Worst Dressed Women 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）s. But I'm not going to stop mixing food and fashion. I have my 限界s, though. I wouldn't wear a bra made out of 海草, because it's not a 削減（する） look and I wouldn't want to be searched going through customs.

I lost my virginity to Jeff Buckley's Grace.

The album was better than the sex. The music is always better than the sex the first time.

I 計画（する） to grow old gracefully rather than disgracefully.?

I'm not planning to be a mad, d runken old woman. I aspire to a 明言する／公表する of grace in my later years. I'll be the perfectly nice old lady next door who looks after your cat when you're away.

The UK 脚 of Katy Perry's world 小旅行する kicks off at Glasgow Barrowland on August 21