She’s an international star with a platinum selling album under her belt but Katy Perry says she has much more to achieve.

Now she’s following in the footsteps of Nirvana and Lauryn Hill by recording her own “MTV Unplugged” session with the aim of 

letting her fans hear her songs stripped bare.

“The ‘MTV Unplugged’ session was really important, it was kind of like the swan song of the whole ‘One of the Boys’ record (her 2008 album),” she says.

“It was the last real look I wanted to give on the record and show off some of the songs at their most simple, kind of at their most stripped down, at the skeleton, at the core of what some of them were written or how they were written.”

Rather than being nervous about performing in front of an intimate audience instead of the festival and concert crowds she’s been used to more recently, Katy says she actually “thrives” in more personal settings.

“The first time I started singing was in church,” she explains, “but then when I started playing guitar I would find open-mic sessions and coffee shops that would let anybody sign up to play. And I would go there and just pull out my guitar and play these little rough drafts of songs and get people’s feedback and really see if it was connecting if people really related to it or 

if they would even listen.”

Perry’s come a long way from singing in coffee shops and has just released her third studio album ‘Teenage Dream’. But the Grammy-nominee says she’s plenty more up her sleeve.

“I feel like I have a lot to prove still and I still have that ambition and that drive that I had when I didn’t have any money, or when I didn’t know what was going to happen in the future, if I was going to make it or anything.”