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Katy Perry on her songwriting: 'I want to help people feel less alone'

Pop megastar Katy Perry has opened up about her songwriting and revealed that she wants to reach people with her lyrics so it's important for her subject matter to be emotive and relatable. 

During a new interview with Buzzfeed, the beauty confessed that she loves to write songs that will maybe help someone who is going through a difficult time in their life and she always wants to lift her fans up from the darkness they may be experiencing:

"My favourite song that I’ve written is probably… Well, there’s different moods on the records that I’ve done. Constantly ‘Firework’ and ‘Roar,’ the songs that uplift people, that inspire people, that give them hope, even though they can sometimes say I’m corny. We all get really down in the dumps and life as an adult is extremely difficult. It’s not like what they made it out to be in the movies. Like, ‘Oh my god! Really?’ I feel like we all need a little glimmer of hope every once in a while or just a hug via a song. Or just some encouragement."

"And also, like, when I write songs, stuff like ‘By the Grace of God,’ which is a ballad I got to do on the Grammys — it’s about me having really dark thoughts about my own particular life, and even though it doesn’t make me comfortable when I talk about that, I think other people hear it and go, ‘Oh, I’m not so alone in my own problems. I’m not the only person going through this situation. Even someone like Katy Perry who looks like she has it all, she still has stuff that she has to deal with. So I’m not alone in my situation.’ I like when people don’t feel so alone, and I like to lift people up. But I also like ‘Walking on Air’ for the kids, some music for the background while you get ready to go out."

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