Katy Perry Sings Her First Song

So, for the last record, I wrote a lot of songs on the guitar. Like, You're Still Gay, I started in it. I finished with Greg Wells, but I started on the guitar. Thinking of You and One of the Boys, a song called Mannequin, I had written by myself. But the song that I, like, was the first song I wrote when I moved to Los Angeles from Santa Barbara, like, the first proper song on the guitar, I feel. I mean, I did a lot, but one that I actually still play to this day was a song called Thinking. And I'd always known the chords. I would play those over and over until I had, like... Why you would do if you were the one to your... Sometimes I think some of my songs can be, like, little old country songs. Well, was that what you were aiming for in the beginning? Not necessarily country, but maybe I think I had some, like, Joni Mitchell influence. There were two girls that really influenced me growing up throughout 17 or 18. That was Patty Griffin and John Brooke. Because those women were, like, gunslingers with their guitars. And amazing, brilliant, emotional songwriters. I just listened to them day in and day out. Flaming Red was my favorite back then.