Top 55 Janet Jackson Quotes

I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.

You can tell someone who doesn’t have love in their life, then someone who is in love.

Every body type is different – that’s what makes you unique. What makes you special is you, and you are different from the next person.

We all have the need to feel special.

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.

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.

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

I’m no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don’t possess any secret wisdom. I’m just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I’m highly emotional. I’m very vulnerable.

In 1977, at age ten, I was cast on the TV sitcom ‘Good Times.’ My character was Penny, an abused child in desperate need of love. I really didn’t want to do the show. I didn’t want to be away from my family.

Being on ‘Good Times’ was the first time I was around a group of people that wasn’t my family.

I kinda see everyone as competition.

I do think kids should be kids. You have the rest of your life to be an adult.

It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us.

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.

No word is absolutely wrong or dirty or insulting. It all depends upon context and intention.

I like myself a lot more than I used to. I had a very difficult time in my twenties especially. It was hard for me to look in the mirror and find something that I liked about myself.

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.

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

I get so much energy from the fans.

I was never pushed into the religion by my mother or anyone else. I made up my own mind when I was old enough. I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual.

Acting was always my first passion.

We’re all driven to premieres or nightclubs and seen the rope separating those who can enter and those who can’t. Well, there’s also a velvet rope we have inside of us, keeping others from knowing our feelings.

I wanted to be on my own and get out of the house. We were the kind of kids that – we – obeyed our parents. If they said no, you don’t ask why.

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

I was two when we left Indiana, and I don’t really remember it that well.

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.

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.

People do see me as sweet and innocent. Not to say that I am not those things. But I have other sides to me.

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don’t let your eyes deceive you.

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.

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.

You don’t have to hold onto the pain to hold onto the memory.

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

Food has always brought me comfort and the bingeing is triggered when I’m in a space that is not positive.

Ever since I was little, I loved to eat. I started eating when I wasn’t hungry. My weight has always been up and down.

I’m a very competitive person. But I think that’s good.

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

When I’m feeling down on myself or not feeling good about who I am, or maybe something happened and I’m feeling depressed, I eat to fill that void. Afterwards I’ll beat myself up about it. I regret doing it, but I’ll turn around and do it again.

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’ve always been a tomboy. I’ve always liked to wear red, black, and white, and mostly pants.

A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.

I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.

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

I have a very strong family.

When I gained weight in 2005, my nutritionist was very worried. I was close to having diabetes.

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

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.

There is a moment when you get older when your metabolism slows down and you don’t feel like working out any more, so you don’t want to keep yourself fit any more, but that’s your decision. Why should you be judged for it?

I feel everyone is put here for a reason. Everyone has a calling. I always thought my real calling was to help other people.

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 like to collaborate on my music. The creative process is fun, and you get a lot of ideas from having discussions about it. Ultimately, the final decision is mine.

People can have rhinoceros skin, but there’s a point when something’s going to hurt you.

There are artists, true performers that have come before me who have been a big inspiration to me. I hope I do the same for others.

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 can be an emotional eater.