Top 100 Janet Jackson Quotes (2026 Update)

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

— Janet Jackson

2. “Believe in yourself. Have faith in yourself because no one else is going to...”

— Janet Jackson

3. “I’m fine the way I am. There’s nothing wrong with me.”

— Janet Jackson

4. “I love you – but don’t touch me.”

— Janet Jackson

5. “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

6. “To a world sick with racism, get well soon.”

— Janet Jackson

7. “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.”

— Janet Jackson

8. “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.”

— Janet Jackson

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

— Janet Jackson

10. “Tie me up, tie me down, make me moan real loud.”

— Janet Jackson

11. “You can never be happy until you understand why you’re doing what you’re doing.”

— Janet Jackson

12. “My first name ain’t baby, it’s Janet, Miss Jackson if you’re nasty.”

— Janet Jackson

13. “You’ve made love to my mind, now you gotta take me from behind.”

— Janet Jackson

14. “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.”

— Janet Jackson

15. “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.”

— Janet Jackson

16. “People do see me as sweet and innocent. Not to say that I am not those things. But I have other sides to me.”

— Janet Jackson

17. “Theres nothing more depressing than having everything and still feeling sad. We must learn to water our spiritual garden.”

— Janet Jackson

18. “You can tell someone who doesn’t have love in their life, then someone who is in love.”

— Janet Jackson

19. “I can feel your body pressed against my body. When you start to poundin’, love to feel you throbbin’.”

— Janet Jackson

20. “I feel everyone is put here for a reason. Everyone has a calling. I always thought my real calling was to help other people.”

— Janet Jackson

21. “Bound together by our beliefs, we are like minded individuals, sharing a common vision, pushing toward a world rid of color lines.”

— Janet Jackson

22. “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.”

— Janet Jackson

23. “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

24. “I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don’t believe in things like guilt.”

— Janet Jackson

25. “People can have rhinoceros skin, but there’s a point when something’s going to hurt you.”

— Janet Jackson

26. “Add to the world’s confusion, we teach our kids rules that we don’t adhere to ourselves.”

— Janet Jackson

27. “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.”

— Janet Jackson

28. “I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.”

— Janet Jackson

29. “Fear is the one emotion that unleashed can destroy anything and anyone.”

— Janet Jackson

30. “Does what you think of you determine your worth?”

— Janet Jackson

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

— Janet Jackson

32. “I’ve always been a tomboy. I’ve always liked to wear red, black, and white, and mostly pants.”

— Janet Jackson

33. “I kinda see everyone as competition.”

— Janet Jackson

34. “I don’t have a lot of friends.”

— Janet Jackson

35. “I’m just trying to get used to living on a fixed income. Now, it’s going to get unfixed.”

— Janet Jackson

36. “Remember one rule, no rule.”

— Janet Jackson

37. “I need you like the blues needs the pain.”

— Janet Jackson

38. “I was two when we left Indiana, and I don’t really remember it that well.”

— Janet Jackson

39. “My dad taught us that there’s no greater distance than that between first and second place.”

— Janet Jackson

40. “You can’t hold the record forever, and I know that. I’m not stupid.”

— Janet Jackson

41. “I’ve never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.”

— Janet Jackson

42. “I do not have a child and all allegations saying so are false.”

— Janet Jackson

43. “You don’t know how many people come up to me and say, ‘This child was conceived listening to you.’”

— Janet Jackson

44. “That’s a part of me going back to what I used to do.”

— Janet Jackson

45. “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

46. “Too many lives go up in smoke – It’s nice to laugh but don’t be the joke.”

— Janet Jackson

47. “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

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

— Janet Jackson

49. “I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.”

— Janet Jackson

50. “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