Katy Perry on America: `I am part of the problem`

The 26-year-old singer said that things need to change in terms of priorities and welfare in her home country, and that she has recently had a political awakening.

She told Rolling Stone magazine, 'It just feels like the thing running our country is a bank, money. I know it sounds like an intense viewpoint, but I'm only slowly but surely getting the wool taken off my eyes. When I was a kid, I asked questions about my faith. Now I'm asking questions about the world.'

She continued, 'I think we are largely in desperate need of revolutionary change in the way our mindset is. Our priority is fame, and people's wellness is way low.

'I saw this knowing full well that I'm a part of the problem. I'm playing the game, though I am trying to reroute.

'Anyway, not to get all politically divulging and introspective, but the fact that America doesn't have free health care drives me absolutely crazy, and is so wrong.'