Janet Jackson
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.Collection: Sad
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.Collection: Knowledge
To have someone to relate to and hopefully enjoy the music and get a positive message out of it, to make the best music that we possibly could, those were the goals.Collection: Positive
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?Collection: Jealousy
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.Collection: Religion
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.Collection: Famous
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.Collection: Best
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.Collection: Imagination
Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society.Collection: Work
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?Collection: Fitness
I kinda see everyone as competition. I'm a very competitive person. But I think that's good. Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.Collection: Cool
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.Collection: Age
I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.Collection: Imagination
I am the baby in the family, and I always will be. I am actually very happy to have that position. But I still get teased. I don't mind that.Collection: Family
Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.Collection: Cool
In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.Collection: Wisdom
I'm a true believer in prayer, a big believer in prayer.
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 have a very strong family.
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.
I don't have a lot of friends.
I'm happy with the people that I have around me. And they've been friends of mine since I was young, for a very long time.
I always get bored with my hair. That's why I would always change it throughout my career.
Food has always brought me comfort and the bingeing is triggered when I'm in a space that is not positive.
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.
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.
As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I'd get ready by myself. I'd set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me up.
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 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'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 would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music.
I always write my music based on what is going on in my life at the 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.
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'm flattered that other artists consider me a role model.
I do think kids should be kids. You have the rest of your life to be an adult.
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.
When I'm getting ready for a tour, I'll work out with the dancers.
I was two when we left Indiana, and I don't really remember it that well.
I was a very quiet kid. A really sweet kid, I might add.
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.
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 get so much energy from the fans.
Acting was always my first passion.
No word is absolutely wrong or dirty or insulting. It all depends upon context and intention.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You don't have to hold onto the pain to hold onto the memory.