Top 100 Janet Jackson Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Janet Jackson

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

— Janet Jackson

53. “I don’t have a lot of friends.”

— Janet Jackson

54. “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

55. “I kinda see everyone as competition.”

— Janet Jackson

56. “I just want you inside, baby, we don’t need to talk about promises.”

— Janet Jackson

57. “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

58. “If I wasn’t singing, I’d probably be, probably an accountant.”

— Janet Jackson

59. “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

60. “Ever since I was little, I loved to eat. I started eating when I wasn’t hungry. My weight has always been up and down.”

— Janet Jackson

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

— Janet Jackson

62. “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

63. “I’m a true believer in prayer, a big believer in prayer.”

— Janet Jackson

64. “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

65. “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.”

— Janet Jackson

66. “Remember one rule, no rule.”

— Janet Jackson

67. “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

68. “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

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

— Janet Jackson

70. “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

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

— Janet Jackson

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

— Janet Jackson

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

— Janet Jackson

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

— Janet Jackson

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

— Janet Jackson

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

— Janet Jackson

77. “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

78. “That’s always – that’s been another dream of mine, to do a Broadway play. An award winning Broadway play.”

— Janet Jackson

79. “I was raised with a ton of brothers and sisters where, obviously, the music running in and out of the house was very eclectic. So, I had a lot under my belt by the time I grew up. It all depends upon the mood that I’m in, the space that I’m in and what I’m feeling at that moment. But definitely!”

— Janet Jackson

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

— Janet Jackson

81. “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

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

— Janet Jackson

83. “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

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

— Janet Jackson

85. “All those songs reflect all the people that live within me.”

— Janet Jackson

86. “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

87. “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

88. “It’s two people that are in love with one another. What’s the issue?”

— Janet Jackson

89. “I always get bored with my hair. That’s why I would always change it throughout my career.”

— Janet Jackson

90. “Food has always brought me comfort and the bingeing is triggered when I’m in a space that is not positive.”

— Janet Jackson

91. “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

92. “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

93. “I’ve never been one for keeping a journal, so my songs were my journals. They allowed me to express my feelings and let people know what was going on with me. I knew that somebody would relate.”

— Janet Jackson

94. “Touring is very grueling. It’s very taxing on the body and living out of your suitcase, going from city to city, night after night. It’s a tough job.”

— Janet Jackson

95. “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

96. “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

97. “Competition is great. And as long as it’s friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it’s cool.”

— Janet Jackson

98. “I think it’s great if a guy has a good sized package.”

— Janet Jackson

99. “I would love to. A dream of mine is to produce films, as well as to produce content for television.”

— Janet Jackson

100. “I can be an emotional eater.”

— Janet Jackson