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Speaker 1 (00:05):
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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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,
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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,
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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,
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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