Q&A with Katy

The best thing to happen to you this week?

This week has been absolutely amazing. My cousin, my sis, and I learned this song and sang it in three part harmony for his birthday, and then the bonfire at the beach under the stars, and the band playing our favorite songs for us, and staying up late talking about everything, and watching Sherlock Holmes. This week has been the best summer of my life.

Q&A with Katy

Name the family member you're closest to and describe your relationship with them

I’m closest with my sister Mary. I’ve been told that sisters usually despise one another, don’t get along, and never talk. My sister and I aren’t like that. We live together, eat together, go to school together, sometimes say the same sentence together, it’s crazy. My sister says we have a psychic link because of how we talk at the same time and finish each other’s sentences. Sometimes she’ll look at me and I’ll know what she’s asking. Or sometimes I’ll say, “What song am I thinking of that sounds like that one song you showed me yesterday?” and she’ll know. Sometimes my knee will hurt and usually it’s ‘cause Mary’s been too hard on hers, and somehow I know. We can be crazy together, and we can just sit and not hardly say anything for hours and it’s not weird or anything. Our voices may sound virtually identical over the phone, but we’re both really different people with different histories; how I think and process is so opposite of how Mar does. I’m logical, she’s emotional. I’m cautious and she jumps right in. I analyze and she goes with her gut. I do things when I feel like it, and she’s super disciplined. I’m a nightowl and she goes to bed at nine. 

To sum it up, let me just tell you what Mar told me about two days ago. We were talking about how some of our friends are starting to get married, and she said “When you get pregnant, I’m moving in. I don’t know where your husband is going to go, but I’m going to live with you. And for those nine months when you’re fat and bitchy and no one likes you, I’ll love you anyway and buy weird groceries for all your cravings…but when the baby is born I’m leaving, that thing is your problem, not mine.”

I stink of wood burning and cigarette smoke, and saltwater, and good music, and I wouldn't have it any other way :)

You are

Q&A with Katy

Your views on drugs and alcohol


Besides aspirin, I don't use em, don't need em. I'm a little...crazy...as it is, so I don't need anything to make me more so. I have enough trouble with my self control as it is, so there's no need to make that worse. And considering my family's history, I'd say my genetics are begging me to stay away from the stuff. Or maybe they're begging me to try it. 


Either way, I don't care if other people indulge, so long as they do so responsibly. Marijuana should be legal, kids old enough to sign up for the military are old enough to drink, and alcohol doesn't make you a better driver. 

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Weird things you do when you're alone


I change out of my pajamas...into pajamas.
I sing in the shower
I sing in the kitchen
I watch and rewatch fan videos of everything I'm into
I sing all of the songs I've written out loud
I pop an entire bowl of popcorn just for myself
Sometimes I sleep all day instead of getting up
I clean the kitchen
Oh man even the weird things I do are boring boring boring. 

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Ten of your wildest dreams

One a scale of one to wildest, here we go. Once in a dream…

1. …I lost my dog
2. …I woke up, lived a whole day, went back to sleep, and woke up to find it all a dream
3. …the Redwood Forest collapsed around me as I drove through it
4. …there was a car accident and I stopped to help
5. …there was an alligator in the golf course pond and it attacked someone
6. …planes dropped bombs on my neighborhood, and we literally headed for the hills to escape
7. …my friend was kidnapped, and I had to rescue her by myself because no one would help
8. …there were these huge swimming pools like at an amusement park, but then there was a flood, and I had to rescue a kid from drowning
9. …someone broke into my house, and I had to fight him off, and when I knocked him out he turned into a balloon and I tied him to a chair, and then my neighbor, Oprah came over and was being nosy and I had to pretend like nothing was wrong.
10. …My mom was pregnant.

Q&A with Katy

First ten songs when I put my music on shuffle

Before He Cheats, Carrie Underwood
Body Language, Queen
Battle of One, 30 Seconds to Mars
Won’t Back Down, Eminem
Slow Down, The Beatles
Jump, Glee Cast
Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Queen
Cooties, Aimee Allen
Neutron Star Collision, Muse
I Wish I Felt Nothing, The Wallflowers

Advice from one of my best friends...

Q&A with Katy

Top 10 things you look for in a friend.

I love being everyone's friend, but letting people close enough to hurt me and actually letting people be friends with me is a lot harder for me. So if you're my friend, then you probably

Care. Are honest with me. Treat others with respect. Tell me what's up with you. Listen to what's up with me. Smile and laugh with (or sometimes at) me. Forgive me when I mess up. Lean on me when you need it. Call me instead of me always calling you. Love me back.

Don't Give Up

I'll be the force that holds you to the earth
and the wind beneath your wings to carry you so far from hurt
Just let me in and I promise you
That I will be the best thing for you
No stop, don't turn around and quit listenin'
We need each other like a secret needs whisperin'
Don't give up before anything has started at all
Don't give up when I've already started to fall
what if I could be strong for the both of us?
What if I could be the girl who really is the one?
Don't give up before you really even know me at all

I could be the ship and sails to take you home
And the light of a rescue boat of your very own
Just take me in and make me yours
And I swear to change your whole world
Just please don't leave and make me keep followin'
I need you like a pinky promise needs promisin'
Don't give up before anything has happened at all
Oh don't give up when I've seen the future and I fall
What if I could be strong enough to hold you up?
What if love could bring the best out of both of us?
Don't walk away before you even really know me at all
Don't stand down when i know that you can stand tall

Baby I'll the wind beneath your wings
I'll rescue you and I'll set you free
Don't hold shut the door
when I can see you're on the floor
And you're bleeding out that blood so red,
and I'm shouting out to let me in
because I love you
and I know my arms around you
and I know my hands all on you

can bring you back to life

So don't give up before you really even know me at all
You're standing down when I know that you can stand tall
What if you could be the one to flick the switch?
Turn on the light and feel the heat of the brightness
I'm watching you give up and just give in to the dark
But please turn around because you're walking out with my heart 

I may be a liar but at least I tell the truth about that

Today was not better than yesterday...

When I Run Through Fountains

I say that I can't feel my heart beat
but I can feel its ghost beat
drums that make my feet
dance again

I sometimes think the wind blows
just to tell me it's cold
enough to warm up my old
smile again

I'm feeling this ice cold
river of a rainbow
falling over my own
shadow of myself

And when I stand in the sun
I see my shadow fall down
and through it shines bright sun
in in a heart on the ground