Check out excerpts from the candid interview and pics from the issue below.
On weed: “The weed—I’m not friends with it… I can’t do that stuff. I’d be like in the corner: ‘Are you trying to kill me?!’”
On her relationship with Mayer: “I think that I needed to grow up… I’m just having a wonderful experience with a wonderful guy. There’s no rush.”
On God: “I do not believe God is an old guy sitting on a throne with a long beard.” Although, judging by her breast prayer, it sounds like God most certainly is an old dude with a long beard.
On her body: “I’ve never had any plastic surgery. Not a nose, not a chin, not a cheek, not a tit. So my messages of self-empowerment are truly coming from an au naturel product.”
On aliens: “I believe in a lot of astrology. I believe in aliens. I look up into the stars and I imagine: How self-important are we to think that we are the only life-form?”
On President Obama: “If my relationship with Obama gets any better, I’m going to ask him that [alien] question. It just hasn’t been appropriate yet… I might have won Wisconsin for him. Actually, I didn’t do too much, but he called on me a couple of times. Which was very nice.”
Losing her virginity: "The writer informs us Perry lost her virginity at age 16 while listening to Jeff Buckley’s album Grace in a car. ”Love that record so much.”
If you want to read the full interview, head over to GQ.