The singer has been candid in the past about the impact of her sheltered, conservative Christian upbringing, revealing earlier this year that she was told to “pray the gay away” after experimenting with her sexuality as a teenager.

In her conversation with Vogue, Perry – now a staunch Democrat and LGBTQ advocate who supported Hillary Clinton in last year’s presidential election – says that she is still influenced by the devout conservatism of her youth.

“I miss references all the time,” she admits, explaining that she only knew who Madonna and Marilyn Manson were as a teenager because her family took her to picket their concerts.

“My house was church on Sunday morning, church on Sunday night, church on Wednesday evening; you don’t celebrate Halloween; Jesus gives you your Christmas presents; we watch Bill O’Reilly on TV,” she says.

“That was my whole childhood and youth and early teens. I still have conditioned layers dropping off of me by the day.”

But another lesson she has learned with age, says Perry, is that it’s never too late to learn – no matter who you are. “Your education can start now.”

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