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Katy: "If you don't have talent, you just look like a freak"
Katy Perry talks career, Killer Queen & clothing line
On being an artist, her career
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Perry isn't hiding behind her makeup, though. "I spoke one time at a songwriting thing, and the kids were asking me questions about being an artist," she recalled. "[I told them] all the costumes and the glitter and the glitz and glam is great, but if you don't have the talent, you just look like a freak."
"This is how I view my career: not as a ticking bomb," she said. "A lot of people do things out of fear. A lot of people make choices [based on thinking] they won't have a career in five years. I know where I am; I know what I do is worth something and does not have an expiration date on it. I'm not making choices -- in any capacity of my life, with any kind of endorsement, with any kind of product -- out of fear."
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On the name of her fragrance, Killer Queen
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In fact, Perry told WWD, she feels like she's just getting started. Explaining how the name of her new fragrance, Killer Queen, came to be, she noted: "Killer Queen has been in my vocabulary since I was 15, because of the song 'Killer Queen' by Queen. Freddie Mercury painted the lyrics of this woman who I wanted to be. She seemed very powerful, and she captivated a room when she walked in."
"I named my company Killer Queen after those lyrics," she continued. "I feel like, after all this time, it was appropriate to use that name in association with something I did. I feel like I'm falling, finally, into that woman Freddie painted."
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On a possible clothing line
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The pop star spoke to Women's Wear Daily this week about the new perfume, her affinity for beauty products... and the prospect of expanding into apparel. Now that she's got a Vogue cover to call her own, fashion seems like it might be an imminent development.
"I would like to [branch into fashion], but this circus act can only juggle so many balls," Katy told the trade. "It's to be determined, but we'll see how it goes. It's a long process, and I want to find the right place for me." Then she divulged her clothing inspirations:
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There are a lot of people I really look up to in fashion — [like] Alice + Olivia and The Row — and I like that price range, too. I love what Victoria Beckham did, but I also have to figure out with myself what actually is the market I want to be in. Is it a high fashion market or is it an accessible market? Nothing is [currently] being created; there aren't even sketches on the table, nor a contract."
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