Top 100 Quotes About Janet Jackson: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Janet Jackson

#1. I'm in show business ... I want to hang out with Janet Jackson, not Jesse Jackson.

#2. I mean, Janet Jackson? She's like Michael Jackson with hair.

#3. When I was younger, coming up in this industry, I was 17, 18 years old. You couldn't tell me Beyonce wasn't my friend. You couldn't tell me that Janet Jackson wasn't my girl. You couldn't tell me that once I signed to my label that me and J.Lo weren't going to have tea in L.A.

Lil' Mama

#4. You know what happens on live TV?
Janet Jackson's Super Bowl Boob happens on live TV. Adele Dazeem happens on live TV. President Al Gore happens on live TV

Shonda Rhimes

#5. Old school Janet Jackson is always good. I usually go old school, it's very rare that I pick a song from nowadays.

Jenna Dewan

#6. I love a good lyricist - always have. The thing that inspired me most was the different performers, like Tina Turner, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Madonna, even Janet Jackson.

Jennifer Lopez

#7. Part of the reason I fell in love with dance so early was because of people like Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, and Britney Spears. When they would dance onstage and in their videos, that was huge for me. I lived for that.

Tinashe

#8. I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them.

Robert Smith

#9. I would love to do a song with Janet Jackson. Janet was, is, forever will be, the ultimate. She's the ultimate dream girl for every guy - and for every girl.

Jussie Smollett

#10. If Janet Jackson does the story of her life and I'm still young enough, I am there. No one can pull her off like I can. I have a dance background. I'm definitely not cutting an album anytime soon, but I can lip-synch all day. I can't sing, but I can act like it very well.

Keshia Knight Pulliam

#11. If there's one thing that I love as an entertainer, it's a spectacle. We all have looked up to either Michael Jackson or Madonna or Janet Jackson or anyone of those things. When I was in *N SYNC, I would watch any concert video ever and really drink it all in.

JC Chasez

#12. Janet Jackson is an icon, I've been honored to meet her a few times, working with her would be amazing.

Eric West

#13. When I got into high school, my favorite artist was definitely Janet Jackson.

Rutina Wesley

#14. I don't date Janet Jackson. She is my girlfriend; there is a difference. She is a very special and talented woman who never ceases to amaze me.

Wissam Al Mana

#15. I love Janet Jackson.

Sevyn Streeter

#16. If I wasn't doing candy, I'd want to create the best rescue animal-shelter organization. Otherwise, the Jackson 5 and Michael Jackson were so much a part of my childhood, and Janet and I have become friends. So my second dream job would be backup singer for Janet Jackson!

Dylan Lauren

#17. We were fools and now we were driving to our deaths in a rental car. Janet Jackson was tinkling from the speakers, asking what we had done for her as of late

Dave Eggers

#18. Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.

Janet Jackson

#19. I need you like the blues needs the pain.

Janet Jackson

#20. That's always - that's been another dream of mine, to do a Broadway play. An award winning Broadway play.

Janet Jackson

#21. 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

#22. 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

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

Janet Jackson

#24. 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.

Janet Jackson

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

Janet Jackson

#26. You can never be happy until you understand why you're doing what you're doing.

Janet Jackson

#27. 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

#28. I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.

Janet Jackson

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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?

Janet Jackson

#32. 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.

Janet Jackson

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

Janet Jackson

#34. 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

#35. It's two people that are in love with one another. What's the issue?

Janet Jackson

#36. Does what you think of you determine your worth?

Janet Jackson

#37. 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.

Janet Jackson

#38. I kinda see everyone as competition.

Janet Jackson

#39. I was two when we left Indiana, and I don't really remember it that well.

Janet Jackson

#40. 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.

Janet Jackson

#41. 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

#42. It's really about being pleased with yourself.

Janet Jackson

#43. I can feel your body pressed against my body. When you start to poundin', love to feel you throbbin'.

Janet Jackson

#44. We all have the need to feel special.

Janet Jackson

#45. 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.

Janet Jackson

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

Janet Jackson

#47. 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

#48. When I gained weight in 2005, my nutritionist was very worried. I was close to having diabetes.

Janet Jackson

#49. To a world sick with racism, get well soon.

Janet Jackson

#50. 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

#51. You've made love to my mind, now you gotta take me from behind.

Janet Jackson

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. 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?

Janet Jackson

#55. I was a very quiet kid. A really sweet kid, I might add.

Janet Jackson

#56. 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

#57. I would love to. A dream of mine is to produce films, as well as to produce content for television.

Janet Jackson

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. 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.

Janet Jackson

#61. I just want you inside, baby, we don't need to talk about promises.

Janet Jackson

#62. Zac Efron is my obsession, we're the same person. We're not actually here, it's like Janet and Michael Jackson. He just puts on his wig and a dress, and it's me, and you don't know that. It's one of the greatest mysteries of all time.

Megan Fox

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

Janet Jackson

#64. 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

#65. 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

#66. 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

#67. All those songs reflect all the people that live within me.

Janet Jackson

#68. 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

#69. I would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music.

Janet Jackson

#70. 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

#71. If I wasn't singing, I'd probably be, probably an accountant.

Janet Jackson

#72. FEAR IS THE ONE EMOTION THAT UNLEASHED CAN DESTROY ANYTHING AND ANYONE.

Janet Jackson

#73. I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.

Janet Jackson

#74. 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.

Janet Jackson

#75. 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.

Janet Jackson

#76. 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

#77. 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

#78. 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.

Janet Jackson

#79. 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

#80. I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.

Janet Jackson

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

Janet Jackson

#82. 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

#83. 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

#84. I get so much energy from the fans.

Janet Jackson

#85. 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

#86. I love you - but don't touch me.

Janet Jackson

#87. My first name ain't baby, it's Janet, Miss Jackson if you're nasty

Janet Jackson

#88. I do not have a child and all allegations saying so are false.

Janet Jackson

#89. Remember one rule, no rule.

Janet Jackson

#90. Being on 'Good Times' was the first time I was around a group of people that wasn't my family.

Janet Jackson

#91. Control meant not only taking care of myself but living in a much less protected world. And doing that meant growing a tough skin.

Janet Jackson

#92. 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