Explore Quotes by Janet Jackson

My parents are very competitive, so we are very competitive as kids. But it's a good kind of competition; it's not a jealousy. You always want to do your best, and if it can't be you, you want it to be your brother or your sister, you know what I mean?

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.

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 was very independent growing up, but there were things that were bothering me that I never told anybody. I would talk to our animals at home.

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 kinda see everyone as competition.

That's a part of me going back to what I used to do.

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

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.

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.

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 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'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.

My brothers were gone on tour a lot, and I would miss them so much.

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.

I'm flattered that other artists consider me a role model.

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

It's really about being pleased with yourself.

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