Katy Perry is launching her own record label. And, in a music business twist, the pop singer wants her new venture to help the recording artists she signs see the profits.
“I’m preparing for it now,” she tells The Hollywood Reporter in a new cover story. “And when this record label does come to fruition, I’m going to try and avoid the things that take away any fighting chance for an artist to have financial success. As people are coming to me with opportunities, I’m thinking, ‘How would I want to be treated?'”
Perry also opens up about her split from comedian Russell Brand in the interview, recalling what it was like to be on a high-pressure tour as her marriage fell apart.
She says of a scene in her upcoming movie “Katy Perry: Part of Me” that shows her having a backstage breakdown, “What was going on in my personal life was so overwhelming that I had to bend over to let those tears fall straight out of my eye sockets and not my false lashes just as I’m about to go up on that ramp and sing ‘Teenage Dream.’ I had to smack myself across the face and say, ‘These problems are my problems, they are not my audience’s problems, learn to separate that.'”
In the interview, Perry also weighs in on another short-lived celebrity marriage that’s in the news, along her own scuttled union.
“Nobody knows what really happened except the two people who are in it,” she says of the Kris Humphries-Kim Kardashian split.
But, the singer, says, “I still believe in love and marriage. I’ve just learned lessons along the way. I regret nothing.”