My how times have changed!

Katy Perry surrounds herself with the most fierce and fabulous people on the planet, but the singer admits in a new Vogue interview that she wasn't allowed much exposure to homosexuals growing up in a strict Evangelical Christian household.

"The schools were really makeshift. Education was not the first priority. My education started in my 20s, and there is so much to learn still," she explained of her sheltered upbringing.

"[I was not] allowed to interact with gay people. There is some generational racism. But I came out of the womb asking questions, curious from day one, and I am really grateful for that: My curiosity has led me here. Anything I don’t understand, I will just ask questions about. But 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. That was my whole childhood and youth and early teens. I still have conditioned layers dropping off of me by the day," she added.

With age comes wisdom, so what has she learned along the way?

"I wouldn’t give anything to go back to my 20s; I’m so much more grounded. And I’ve learned a lot of lessons—patience, the art of saying no, that everything doesn’t have to end in marriage. That your education can start now. I blasted off on a rocket, holding on for dear life,” she confessed.

The "Chained to the Rhythm" songstress was a huge Hillary Clinton supporter during the election, and after Donald Trump won, it brought back old issues.

"I was really disheartened for a while; it just brought up a lot of trauma for me. Misogyny and sexism were in my childhood: I have an issue with suppressive males and not being seen as equal. I felt like a little kid again being faced with a scary, controlling guy. I wouldn’t really stand for it in my work life, because I have had so much of that in my personal life. But it’s an awakening that was necessary because I think we were in a false utopia . . . we can’t ever get that stagnant again. I am so grateful that young people know the names of senators. I think teenage girls are going to save the world! That age group just seems to be holding people accountable. They have a really strong voice—and a loud one," she mused.

This is what girl power sounds like!