Katy Perry had quite a bit to reminisce about throughout her 2024 MTV Video Music Awards acceptance speech Wednesday night time (Sept. 11).

The singer accepted the coveted Video Vanguard Award after performing a medley of her biggest hits together with “Darkish Horse,” “E.T.,” “California Gurls,” “Teenage Dream,” “I Kissed a Lady,” “Firework” and “Lifetimes.”

She additionally introduced out Doechii to carry out their new collaboration, “I am His, He is Mine,” throughout an out-of-this-world, high-flying manufacturing that includes a legion of backup dancers, lights and particular results.

Watch Katy Perry’s 2024 VMAs efficiency, beneath.

After the almost 10-minute efficiency, Perry returned to the stage to just accept her Moon Particular person trophy, joking she was capable of get by her efficiency “on the primary day of my interval.”

Perry started her speech by thanking MTV for “believing in my weirdness from day one and for serving to artists prolong their worlds past a tune.” The singer advised the group there are “no decade-long accidents.” She additionally thanked her workforce and household earlier than giving a shout out to her days spent on MySpace and the Vans Warped Tour, which had been the “bygone locations the place I discovered a voice, id and a group so early on.”

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Perry gave a shout out to her mates that had been at all times there for her, even when her Jetta was repossessed, earlier than acknowledging her Katy Cats and the LGBTQ+ group who taught her that “you could be each form and c–t.”

Perry supplied phrases of knowledge to her followers, telling them to dam out the norms, keep true to your self and keep in mind to take breaks from social media and “safeguard your psychological well being, pause, contact grass and do what you had been born to do similar to I used to be going to do that.”

She concluded her speech by thanking her beau, Orlando Bloom, for maintaining her grounded and saying that the “solely flowers I will ever want” is her daughter, Daisy.

Lastly, Perry teased her new album 143, out Sept. 20.