Top 174 Quotes & Sayings by Janet Jackson - Page 2

I think people really connect with the idea of someone who's gained and lost weight in this very public way, and also someone who's an emotional eater.

It was the Control album that was really about what I wanted to do.

I was a very quiet kid. A really sweet kid, I might add.

Control meant not only taking care of myself but living in a much less protected world. And doing that meant growing a tough skin.

That's always - that's been another dream of mine, to do a Broadway play. An award winning Broadway play.

I don't have a lot of friends.

Some of my battles with weight have been very public. But most of them have been internal. Even at my thinnest, when my body was being praised, I wasn't happy with what I saw in the mirror or how I felt about myself.

I've never been one for keeping a journal, so my songs were my journals. They allowed me to express my feelings and let people know what was going on with me. I knew that somebody would relate.

I always get bored with my hair. That's why I would always change it throughout my career.

I really don't know anything else because my brothers were famous when I was two years old. So I know nothing else, no other life.

I get so much energy from the fans.

I'd adopt. And I think that if I'm really supposed to have kids, it will happen, if that's God's plan for me.

I think it's been a little difficult at times for the audience, because they've told me they see me as a family member. So to see your little sister sing about sex... I think they are pretty used to it now.

When I'm getting ready for a tour, I'll work out with the dancers.

I always write my music based on what is going on in my life at the time.

Recording is more autobiographical than acting. It's me - either how I'm feeling then or once felt at some point in my life. It's all me.

I wanted to talk about my life. There is so much. I was 18 when I made the record, and I had a lot to say.

All those songs reflect all the people that live within me.

By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn't a very intricate hairstyle. Still, to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual.

Another side to me is this very sexual being. When I look back on my life, it's always been there. It's been there since I was 10 years old, having the imagination that I had.

There's other things I'd like to do. I probably won't tour for a very, very long time. It's something that you feel inside and that's the way I've been looking at everything.

I think it's great if a guy has a good sized package.

I've talked about sex a great deal in my music for a great while now. I feel very comfortable with it.

There are people that regardless of what it is, if it's something that's stressful, whatever it may be, they don't eat, they lose a lot of weight, a divorce, they get real thin. I'm the opposite.

Acting was always my first passion.

I can be an emotional eater.

I'm a true believer in prayer, a big believer in prayer.

You get used to working with one choreographer. You kind of get stuck in that vein and you work your way out of it, picking up someone else's style, their flavor. It takes a bit of time.

I don't like to work out, and I get bored easily.

I have a very strong family.

I'm just trying to get used to living on a fixed income. Now, it's going to get unfixed.

You can't hold the record forever, and I know that. I'm not stupid.

When we were growing up, all of us kids were vegetarians. No one had asked me to stop eating meat - I just noticed everyone else around me had stopped, so I followed the crew.

I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.

You get yourself up for it somehow, and your endurance and the crowd gets you up, too.

I like to have a lot of fun. I just don't see myself as being sexy. It's more sass - more attitude - than sex.

The pain is necessary. Sometimes pain is the teacher we require, a hidden gift of healing and hope.

I work with a lot of different charities, and by that I don't mean merely by giving money, but by really getting involved hands-on. I've always said that one of the reasons why I was put on this Earth was to help people. That's something I've always enjoyed both here in America and if I have the opportunity when I'm traveling out of the country. For example, I like to visit orphanages to spend time with the children. That's very important to me.

I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.

I feel most people’s sexuality is enormously complicated. That’s what it means to be human. Wouldn’t it be great if we honored that complexity rather than turn it into gossip or ridicule? Wouldn’t it be great if we accepted sexual diversity, in ourselves and others, without condemning it?

If people want to know the truth, why don't they just come to me and ask?

When I finally make up my mind that I want to do something, it's never been hard for me to do.

I have so much more confidence in myself now than I ever did before.

You can't worry about pleasing other people; you have to please yourself.

Fear is the one emotion that unleashed can destroy anything and anyone.

You can never be happy until you understand why you're doing what you're doing.

I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.

When you hear bad things about yourself, just put your energies into something else; it's no good crying about it. Just put it into your music - it'll make you stronger.

To a world sick with racism, get well soon.

Theres nothing more depressing than having everything and still feeling sad. We must learn to water our spiritual garden.

I always knew that I could go deep. How deep? I don't know. But it always seems that with each character I take on, I'm challenged to go deeper than the last time, and then again deeper than the last time. This is the deepest I've ever been asked to dive. And to see how deep I actually went for this, and that I wasn't afraid to go there in order to give Tyler exactly what he envisioned for the character, which was pretty deep, that's what I discovered about myself.

It's two people that are in love with one another. What's the issue?

Believe in yourself. Have faith in yourself because no one else is going to.

The greatest achievement to any human being is to love God, yourself, and others.

I can express gratitude for the simple act of being able to breathe in and breathe out. I can move away from darkness and depression to light and hope. I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be. I am me, the true me; you are you, the true you - and that's good. That's beautiful. That's enough.

My first name ain't baby, it's Janet, Miss Jackson if you're nasty

To be given permission to be confused -- and remain confused -- for as long as it takes would have been a huge gift.

I'm convinced that we Black women possess a special indestructible strength that allows us to not only get down, but to get up, to get through, and to get over.

Everywhere I go, every smile I see, I know you are there smilin' back at me. Dancin' in moonlight, I know you are free 'cause I can see your star shinin' down on me.

It's very hard trying to have love and a career at the same time. For those who can, great, but I can't.