110+ Janet Jackson Quotes (Dynamic, Soulful And Iconic)

Janet Jackson is an American singer, songwriter, dancer and actress. She is the youngest child of the Jackson family and began her career with the variety television series The Jacksons in 1976. Her musical career has spanned over four decades and she has released eleven studio albums, two compilation albums, two remix albums, and four live albums.

Top 10 Janet Jackson Quotes

1. I'm convinced that we Black women possess a special indestructible strength that allows us to not only get down, but to get up, to get through, and to get over.
2. People do see me as sweet and innocent. Not to say that I am not those things. But I have other sides to me.
3. I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.
4. 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.
5. Believe in yourself. Have faith in yourself because no one else is going to.
6. Theres nothing more depressing than having everything and still feeling sad. We must learn to water our spiritual garden.
7. The greatest achievement to any human being is to love God, yourself, and others.
8. I would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music.
9. 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.
10. My dad taught us that there's no greater distance than that between first and second place.

Janet Jackson Short Quotes

• I don't have a lot of friends.
• I need you like the blues needs the pain.
• I love you - but don't touch me.
• You get yourself up for it somehow, and your endurance and the crowd gets you up, too.
• You can't worry about pleasing other people; you have to please yourself.
• I don't see anything wrong with staying young looking as long as you can.
• People can have rhinoceros skin, but there's a point when something's going to hurt you.
• To a world sick with racism, get well soon.
• You don't know how many people come up to me and say, 'This child was conceived listening to you.'
• I was two when we left Indiana, and I don't really remember it that well.

Janet Jackson Famous Quotes And Sayings

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? — Janet Jackson

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. — Janet Jackson

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. — Janet Jackson

Bound together by our beliefs, we are like minded individuals, sharing a common vision, pushing toward a world rid of color lines. — 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. — Janet Jackson

Marvin Gaye is our John Lennon. The longer he's gone, the more young people appreciate his art. 'What's Going On' was a work of genius far ahead of it's time. — Janet Jackson

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. — Janet Jackson

I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it. — Janet Jackson

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

I like to have a lot of fun. I just don't see myself as being sexy. It's more sass - more attitude - than sex. — Janet Jackson

The only thing that bothers me is that the girls come up to me and say, "I'm dating your ex-husband." I'm happy that he's dating girls and getting out. — Janet Jackson

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. — Janet Jackson

There are two sides of the Velvet Rope. Those who want to be on the other side and those who are on the other side. — Janet Jackson

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. — Janet Jackson

Self-expression is my goal, I want to be real with my feelings. Singing and dancing and all the joy that goes with performing come from my heart. If I can't feel it, I won't do it. — Janet Jackson

When you hear bad things about yourself, just put your energies into something else; it's no good crying about it. Just put it into your music - it'll make you stronger. — Janet Jackson

Damita Jo. Jo. That's my middle name. It's let in about the different characters that live within me. They say we have 200 characters that we portray with different people. — Janet Jackson

What I love about Gaga is her story, where she came from. Before she made it, before anyone knew who she was, I knew who she was and, to see her finally make it, I was so happy. If we were to work together that would be cool. — Janet Jackson

There are two things that really move me: music and acting. And I'm not talking about my music or watching myself as an actor, but listening to other people's music and watching other actors. There are so many different songs that have moved me. It all depends upon the mood that I'm in at that moment. — Janet Jackson

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. — Janet Jackson

I have a very strong family. — Janet Jackson

I feel that when two people are married - not that you have to totally give up your career - you have to spend time with one another, get to know each other more, just share things with each other. — Janet Jackson

Does what you think of you determine your worth? — Janet Jackson

To be given permission to be confused -- and remain confused -- for as long as it takes would have been a huge gift. — Janet Jackson

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. — Janet Jackson

I was out once and had wine and I got sick to my stomach, and I vowed I would never drink again. — Janet Jackson

You dont have to hold on to the pain, to hold on to the memory. — 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. — Janet Jackson

I'm shy, although I'm not shy with my friends and family. — Janet Jackson

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

All those songs reflect all the people that live within me. — Janet Jackson

I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself. — Janet Jackson

A lot of my friends they call me 'the therapist'. They come to me looking for advice. I must be doing something right because they keep coming back. But I'm not very good at kind of looking into my own world and trying to pick apart what is really wrong and fix those things. I like to kind of shy away from certain issues and turn away. — Janet Jackson

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

I'm scared to fall in love, afraid to love so fast, cuz everytime I fall in love, it seems to never last. — Janet Jackson

Tie me up, tie me down, make me moan real loud. — Janet Jackson

You can tell someone who doesn't have love in their life, then someone who is in love. — Janet Jackson

I enjoy them both [singing and acting] a great deal. I have a passion for both. Maybe acting just a little bit more because it's more of a challenge for me, while music comes so easily. — Janet Jackson

I study once in a while. But my parents never pushed us into anything. Until we were 18, my mother would make us go with her to Kingdom Hall, and when we turned of age, she let us choose what we wanted to. — Janet Jackson

I'll meet a guy now, and the next thing I know they'll be sweating and their hands will be shaking. And I feel so bad - I don't even know what to say to them. Then there are other guys who come on too strong, and they're just all over you. The nice ones are the ones who are in-between - the ones who aren't scared and who aren't all over you. — Janet Jackson

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. — Janet Jackson

I'm just trying to get used to living on a fixed income. Now, it's going to get unfixed. — Janet Jackson

When I do get married again, I'm just going to take time off. — Janet Jackson

I just want you inside, baby, we don't need to talk about promises. — Janet Jackson

Big sisters and brothers... I am telling you, it never changes. — Janet Jackson

You've made love to my mind, now you gotta take me from behind. — Janet Jackson

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 velvet rope we have inside of us, keeping others from knowing our feelings. — Janet Jackson

I work with a lot of different charities, and by that I don't mean merely by giving money, but by really getting involved hands-on. I've always said that one of the reasons why I was put on this Earth was to help people. That's something I've always enjoyed both here in America and if I have the opportunity when I'm traveling out of the country. For example, I like to visit orphanages to spend time with the children. That's very important to me. — Janet Jackson

I can be an emotional eater. Of late, I have been doing that, yes. It started when I was very little. My brothers were gone on tour a lot, and I would miss them so much. — Janet Jackson

It's very hard trying to have love and a career at the same time. For those who can, great, but I can't. — Janet Jackson

I truly felt that was going to be my last tour. So here we are again and I'm saying this will probably be my last tour. That's truly the way I'm looking at it. — Janet Jackson

Fear is the one emotion that unleashed can destroy anything and anyone. — Janet Jackson

You have to feel good about yourself. — Janet Jackson

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. — Janet Jackson

If people want to know the truth, why don't they just come to me and ask? — Janet Jackson

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. — Janet Jackson

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. — Janet Jackson

You can't hold the record forever, and I know that. I'm not stupid. — Janet Jackson

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

That's what I think I am: a lot of fun - a lot of fun to be with. — Janet Jackson

I can feel your body pressed against my body. When you start to poundin', love to feel you throbbin'. — Janet Jackson

I wanted to be a jockey. I'm serious. First time I got on a horse, I loved it. That's what I wanted to be, but my dad asked me to start performing with my family. — Janet Jackson

I was sheltered, and there's good and bad to that. The good was not getting into the drugs and the alcohol and the really sorry stuff, and the bad was finally coming out into the real world and trying to deal with it, which was hard for me. — Janet Jackson

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

It's two people that are in love with one another. What's the issue? — Janet Jackson

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

To cut off the confusion and accept an answer just because it's too scary not to have an answer is a good way to get the wrong answer. — Janet Jackson

I do not have a child and all allegations saying so are false. — Janet Jackson

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. — Janet Jackson

I still have certain goals that I want. Grammies... Other awards... an Oscar one day. — Janet Jackson

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

Remember one rule, no rule. — Janet Jackson

Everywhere I go, every smile I see, I know you are there smilin' back at me. Dancin' in moonlight, I know you are free 'cause I can see your star shinin' down on me. — Janet Jackson

I like to read. Autobiographies. — Janet Jackson

I don't find myself sexy. — Janet Jackson

I would love to. A dream of mine is to produce films, as well as to produce content for television. — Janet Jackson

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

My parents were strict. They weren't as strict on me as they were with the others, but my mother didn't want us to get on anyone's nerves... Go to someone else's house and drive their parents crazy. Another thing was they didn't want us to get into a lot of things that a lot of kids - if they're not careful - can slip into. — Janet Jackson

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. — Janet Jackson

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. — Janet Jackson

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

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. — Janet Jackson

I have so much more confidence in myself now than I ever did before. — Janet Jackson

I lose things all the time. I used to lose my license all the time before I put a place in my car for it. — Janet Jackson

I've never tried pot; I've never tried anything. — Janet Jackson

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

I can't believe people got so upset at the sight of a single breast! America is so parochial, I may just have to move to Europe where people are more mature about things like that! — Janet Jackson

Add to the world's confusion, we teach our kids rules that we don't adhere to ourselves. — Janet Jackson

I do want to get married again, and I want to have kids. And this time, I really want to do it right. — Janet Jackson

MTV was completely unaware of it. It was not my intention that it go as far as it did. I apologize to anyone offended - including the audience, MTV, CBS and the NFL. — Janet Jackson

Life Lessons by Janet Jackson

1. Janet Jackson has taught us the importance of resilience and hard work, having overcome personal and professional obstacles to become one of the most successful and influential musicians of all time.
2. She has also shown us the power of self-expression and the importance of staying true to oneself, no matter what the world may think.
3. Finally, Janet Jackson has demonstrated the importance of giving back to the community and using one's platform to advocate for causes that one believes in.