In her upcoming cover story with Rolling Stone, pop star Katy Perry reflects on her past, present, and future, addressing such topics as motherhood and, perhaps most controversially, the accusations of racism that she's faced in the last year.
"I guess I'll just stick to baseball and hot dogs, and that's it," Perry quipped in reference to her performance at the 2013 American Music Awards, where she was accused of cultural appropriation for dressing up like a geisha. "I know that's a quote that's gonna come to f**k me in the ass, but can't you appreciate a culture? I guess, like, everybody has to stay in their lane? I don't know."
Perry also defends her use of the "big-bootied mummies" that have danced with her on her recent Prism tour, which led to more accusations of cultural insensitivity, only this time from the African-American community. "As far as the mummy thing, I based it on plastic surgery. Look at someone like Kim Kardashian or Ice-T's wife, Coco. Those girls aren't African-American. But it's actually a representation of our culture wanting to be plastic, and that's why there's bandages and it's mummies."
Perry moves on from the hot button issues to discuss motherhood, and if she has any intentions to start a family in the near future. "Maybe it's in a five-year plan," she says, "I want to be doing that in the right time...I don't really want to take the child on tour. Not until, like, birth through five is over." As for who the father of her child would be, Perry doesn't seem too concerned. "I don't need a dude. I mean, Neil and David, their twins are beautiful," Perry says, referring to her friends Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka. "It's 2014! We are living in the future; we don't need anything. I don't think I'll have to, but we'll see. I'm not anti-men. I love men. But there is an option if someone doesn't present himself."
Katy Perry's Rolling Stone cover story hits stands this Friday, August 1.
