Explore Quotes by Janet Jackson

I can be an emotional eater.

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

My first crush was Barry Manilow. He performed on TV and I taped it. When no one was around I'd kiss the screen.

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

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

I'm fine the way I am. There's nothing wrong with me.

We all have the need to feel special.

People tend to put entertainers on pedestals. We're human beings, just like you. You may see us smiling, and whether we have money or not, we still have bills to pay, we still have our stresses. I think a lot of people want to focus on others' shortcomings to make themselves feel better. And it's a very sad thing.

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

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

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

My dad taught us that there's no greater distance than that between first and second place.

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

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.

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 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.

Too many lives go up in smoke - It's nice to laugh but don't be the joke.

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 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?

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

You don't know how many people come up to me and say, 'This child was conceived listening to you.'