Explore Quotes by Janet Jackson

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.

It has taken me most of my adult life to come to terms with who I am. To do that, I had to break free of attitudes that brought me down.

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 get so much energy from the fans.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

When I was younger, I thought you had to be in control of your own life. That takes a lot of discipline, hard work and focus. You just can't let it all fall by the wayside. Later on, I learned that God is really in control of everything. But you still have to put your best foot forward and be the best you can possibly be.

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.

My concepts are never bright ideas; they're never notions I think will sell or be trendy or attract new fans. I don't think that way. All I can do is sing from my life.

Acting was always my first passion.

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

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