KATY PERRY

Published May 26, 2020, 11:30 AM

Where are you with your dreams? Are you still pursuing them? Are you living them? Have they been put on a shelf or have some been taken from you? Katy Perry is a woman with dreams and I am so thrilled for her that one of her BIG dreams is coming true - the dream of motherhood. Katy broke the news to her fans through - what else - music! With her single, "Never Worn White" and she's now released another chart-topper, "Daisies."

Of "Daisies" she tells me, it's about the noise... All the racket that can occur when you 're working toward a dream when others, even well-meaning family and friends, want to weigh in, and how important it is to create your own path in life. She also says it speaks to the times we're living in now. The "pause" button has been pressed and we're all anxious for "play" to resume, and when that happens, all of us need to take our dreams off the shelf and start living them!

Listen in! ~ Delilah

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Hey, let me ask you a question. Are you someone who believes music can change the world. If so, then my guest today I love someone. Delilah is definitely someone you already know but might want to get to know a little bit more. Katie Perry is a major superstar, of course, and has so many hit songs that I lost count. But you know what, She's so much more than that. She's a real person. She is extremely down to earth. She's carrying and kind. A couple of years back, we connected for the first time, and I was surprised to know that growing up she listened to my show every night. She shared with me that my message and my music had actually had an impact with her. She had big dreams and a whole lot of faith, and you know what, she still does. You just never know how your life, or your words, or your love might impact another. I can think of no better guests at this moment in time than a megastar who admits that her toes need painting. Her soul is shaken and her heart is full for all who suffered deeply through this pandemic. Her belly is also full, but not with food, but rather with a beautiful baby. She is so excited for. We're going to talk about love the importance of connecting and just how much music is the true universal healing language. Welcome to love someone. My friend Katie Perry, Hello, beautiful, how are you? I'm so excited for you? Can you see it? Still? See your toes? Um? I can see my toes, but I'm I would say that I can't see other things. Your knees, your knees. You can't see your knees. I'm so blessed and so thrilled to get to talk to Katie Perry. And Katie, I gotta know, like, can you see the tonail polish? Can you see your pedicure? Pedicure, pedicure? Yeah? But you know what I was thinking speaking of pedicures, I was thinking about tweeting the other day. I was like, Okay, you guys, show me the state of your feet, and I'll show you the state of my feet right now. Or is that too much information? Oh? No, no, no no. When you're pregnant, you get to do anything, any dang thing you want. It's it's a permission card. Exactly a lot of us have I think all of us haven't had access to our regulars. You know, little little moments of manicures and pedicures and they you know, they they're definitely in a state right now. That's what Orlando is for. Is he not taking care of your feet? Because my husband, and God bless him, actually gave me a little petty he did, he did. How long have you guys been married. Well, this is a funny story. We've been married what eight years now together thirteen, But we've never lived together until COVID because he's under contract in another state and I'm under contract and have my studio and so we have a commuter marriage, but we've never actually lived under the same roof until COVID hit. Yeah, so it's like we're newlyweds. Yeah, well, when are you giving you a pedicure? Obviously? Yeah, it's kind of nice. I'm not even pregnant with his child. So see, you should You should talk to your honey and say, sweetheart, Paul did this for Delilah. Come on, help help a girlfriend out. He's doing really, really good under you know, despite the circumstances and all things considered with what's going on in the world. He's being a great partner and being you know, more sensitive than than ever and knows that like I, I will crack at the drop of a hat. I will crack like you know. Sometimes I'll just crack over the stupidest things. And uh, I was. I was driving away, um, going to the grocery store, and I was just like crying, and he was and he was waving by it. I was just crying. On on top of everything being so intense, I get an extra access to my emotions through via my femones. Well there there is that. But I gotta tell you it's it's never going to go away. Now. Did anyone warn you of this? Now that you are a mom, it doesn't go away once the baby is born. You are always going to be a hot mess when it comes to anything having to do with your child. Did you know? Did they warn you of that? I've always been a hot mess. You've made me cry when you released Never Wore White and and released to the world that that you're going to be a mama. Yeah, I thought it was a perfect way to share the news. It's through music. I mean, that's how I communicate with people, and um, this was a big massage to send. You've somehow managed to slay me once again with music. And we're going to talk about that when we come back, and what a beautifully beautifully shot and choreographed and lit and everything the the visual I'm more like, I'm into lyrics, you know, So a lot of times I don't like videos because if the video is distracting me from the story of the lyrics, I hate it, UM, because I want to hear what you're saying. And but with Never Were White, Oh my gosh, Katie, it was so beautiful. You're so beautiful. Thank you. You know, you take lyrics and you wear them on a t shirt, you inscribe them on the inside of wedding bands. Uh, you know, you have them on a tomb stone. I mean, they are the final mark. Lyrics are the most important, UM. And if you can get the right combination of melody and and music underneath, then that's golden. But you know, we just wanted the lyrics to shine because the because the lyrics are so meaningful and this is it's such a moment in my own personal life that I really wanted to share and be an open book with my fans about. And I didn't want them to, like you said, I didn't want them to be distracted there wasn't a need for them to have, you know, any extra sugar on the track. It just you needed to hear what was being said. And that song came out, and then COVID came down. And how many uh weeks have you and Orlando been quarantined? Did you actually like, yeah, we I came back from Australia. I actually I was in Australia. Um. It was I think March twelve when it was announced that Tom Hanks and his wife Rita had COVID and they were they were also there, right, they were in Australia at the time. Um. And then and I was supposed to do I remember specifically, I was promoting Never Worn White. Than I realized, oh, I'm about to do a full day of press, and then they called they canceled all the press because like one of the press people that I was supposed to sit down and have an interview with had just had dinner with Tom Hanks. Come to find out, later tested positive but obviously has um um healed from it, which is good. But I was staying at the same hotel that they were staying at three days prior, so I was like, oh, this is getting real, and you know, it's been it's been a gamut of emotions. It's been up and down, and there was a lot of insane feelings in those first couple of weeks. Um. And you know, I think we can all all kind of see the light at the end of the tunnel. Possibly, Um, I don't know what the future holds. And they talk about a second wave, Um, it's you know, we are suffering from the loss of certainty for sure. And you're expecting and I I have a daughter that's expecting and a daughter in law that's expecting, and they're like, Mom, What's what's going to happen when I have to go to labor. What's gonna happen here? What's going to happen there? And I said, Honey, I don't know, but I do know the one who created that baby in your womb, and I'm going to put my trust in him. And I think you need to do the same thing because what else can you do? Right? Well, my I mean my mom is similar. She she wakes up and just she goes into her bathroom and is in the bathtub just praying for an hour every day. Or my my dad, you know, goes up to the mountains in my home town of Santa Barbara and just praised for an hour every morning. And I'm grateful for those prayers, especially in a time like this. And Orlando and I, you know, he chants every morning for an hour. He's got a Buddhist practice and we pray. It's it's it's definitely the the last thing that we do in the first thing that we do. Um and put in that practice more even more so these days. But yeah, it's like, you know, it's an it's another level, it's another layer of uncertainty. Um. And I mean for me, I just had to take it one day at a time and trust in you know, the professionals and um, you know, not like I have to kind of go with the flow as far as planning goes. I'm grateful that I didn't have to give birth last month. I mean, I'm like those women that did our heroes and especially having a child for the first time, you have no idea what to compare it to. But I have to put my faith entire power. I have to uh surrender in a way. And I'm in my studio now that my engineer came down on March tent and built in my husband's barn, and it's in the loft of the barn, a barn that's got you know, six dolls from my horses and goats and dogs downstairs, and I've got twenty baby chicks outside the room that is my studio. We made the studio sound proof using you know those blankets that movers use when they move furniture, like if they come and move here, the blue blankets. I bought thirty of those and I stapled them inside the barn to kind of give a sound cushion to my studio. And I've got paper towels taped over the barn lights because they're fluorescent, ugly, harsh barn lns. And I'm like, oh my gosh, what am I gonna do? Everyone is their own mcgiver right now. I kind of like that though. I'm kind of loving being the diver survival of the professional fittest. And I'm putting a record out this summer, and you know, just really Daisies, which is the first song off of the record, and you know, it's not gonna be a normal record cycle or promotion cycle where I'm gonna be out there being able to fans and travel and um, you know, I had to make that decision either put it out now or delay until next year. And I was like, look, I'm how about a child, but one thing for certain, and I'm gonna go into another version of my own personal quarantine. And um, I've been you know, I've been writing this body of work for two years now, and I think that by summertime, we're all gonna want to Like, we already want to dance. We already have ants in our pants. We want to dance, whether we'll be dancing at home, dancing in the streets, dancing in the parks, we want to dance. People, you want to listen to music. People want to be lifted up and inspired. Right. D D my girlfriend d D who's my office manager, but she's also my oldest and dearest friend. We've been friends since we were nine years old. She put a post on social media the other day that just said, when all else fails and nothing else matters, music remains that great. You know, It's really gotten me through some dark times. And these times have been dark. And well, I my husband and I just adopted a teenager last year. In fact, her adoption was finalized a week before two weeks before the COVID quarantine hit, we were in another state. We were in Missouri finalizing her adoption. She's been in foster care for years and just had a really tough go of it. And when she heard I got to interview you today, she said, Mom, please tell her that our dance team, every song that we chose was one of her songs, and please tell her how her music got me through the toughest times in my life. So Brier just wanted you to know. And this, this kid, she's so beautiful. She has been through hell and and she's still standing and she's still dancing. So uh, Usually I'm struggling with something emotionally or just you know, in my own little tunnel, and it's really like something inside of me. I think my soul is writing this song and reminding me that I have and can you know, get through whatever I'm going through and I can continue to put one ft in front of the other. And and and Daisy's was a song I wrote in February actually basically just about you know, all all the noise and all the laughter and eye rolling that comes along with having a big dream. Um for me, it was you know, it came from my friends and family when I was when I was in my team years, when I would tell them that this is what my dream is and this is how I'm going to execute it and this is what I'm going to do when I you know, grow up. And I mean I still continued in my life from the comments on social media to um whatever, you know, the media of what they think that I should be or sound like, or what I'm what I am doing right or what I am doing wrong. I mean, it's the noise never stops, but during quarantine because the amount of time we've all had reflected and maybe being that we've taken things for granted that you know, maybe we've taken our dreams for granted or we put them on the shelf in a box in the attic and you realize, oh, what when did I give us all my dreams? And why? And um, I think for me, it's like I never knew that the chance or opportunity would be taken away from me, like it has the freedom. And when we get that freedom back, I hope that people are ready to go after living their best life possible in a new way. You know, yeah, amen to that, Well you are going to I gotta tell you, I started to say this earlier. Your world is about to be blown apart with this baby that God has blessed you with. Because from now on, as soon as as soon as this baby enters the world, your heart is going to be walking around outside of your body. My God, somebody said that to me before my firstborn was born, and I didn't didn't really process it. And the minute he was born, those words came back to me and I went, oh my gosh. And as soon as I could, I called my mom and I said, I I Am so sorry. She's like, so sorry for what on? He said, I didn't know how much you loved me. That make me cry out My last pair of false sight last year. You know you can order them off Amazon. I've been alright, Sweetie, Thank you God, bless you go. I want to thank Katy Perry one more time. What a beautiful, loving young woman she is. I hope this podcast episode and all of my podcast episodes inspire you to reach out and love someone right now. Learn more about Katie and her new song and video Daisies at Katie Perry dot com

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