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"  Before hitting the stage at the House of Blues in Chicago, the 24-year-old ministers&amp;#039; daughter\u2014who&amp;#039;s wrapping up the last leg of her sold-out Hello Katy tour now\u2014talks with ELLE about her love of Freddie Mercury and why Saturday Night Live really needs to try a little bit harder next time they spoof her. ELLE:  Do you go on the road with your cat, Kitty Purry? Katy Perry: I wish, but everybody [on tour] is allergic. ELLE: They don&amp;#039;t give the headliner special cat privileges? KP: My special privileges are few and far between. My sister travels with me, and she&amp;#039;s the person who keeps me in line, whether I like it or not. I trust her and also have a good, healthy fear of her.  ELLE:  You covered Queen&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Don&amp;#039;t Stop Me Now&amp;quot; on your Hello Katy tour. Are they an influence?  KP: I had my big, intense, meaningful musical moment with Queen, not with &amp;quot;Don&amp;#039;t Stop Me Now,&amp;quot; but with the song &amp;quot;Killer Queen.&amp;quot; I think that everybody has this one moment in their lives that they can remember\u2014for some people, it&amp;#039;s, like, Smashing Pumpkins or Radiohead or Garbage or No Doubt. I just appreciate all the obvious hard work that Freddie Mercury did. Because there was no way to cut corners back then.  ELLE:  But you didn&amp;#039;t grow up listening to rock &amp;#039;n&amp;#039; roll, right? KP:  I grew up listening to gospel. That was the only thing that I had reference to because that was what my family was involved with. Only when I started becoming a teenager, hanging out with friends, I was fed little by little different things from the outside world. I grew up in a life where the answer was always there, I guess. But now I&amp;#039;m out on my own and still looking for the answer. Nothing is solved for me. ELLE:  Did you ever see the SNL sketch called &amp;quot;The Less Provocative Songs of Katy Perry?&amp;quot;  KP: I thought they did a horrible job! I make fun of myself more than they [did]. I was like, &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s funny. If you&amp;#039;re high.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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