That’s a part of me going back to what I used to do.
I have a very strong family.
My first name ain’t baby, it’s Janet, Miss Jackson if you’re nasty.
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.
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 love you – but don’t touch me.
You can’t hold the record forever, and I know that. I’m not stupid.
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.
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.
Add to the world’s confusion, we teach our kids rules that we don’t adhere to ourselves.
I was two when we left Indiana, and I don’t really remember it that well.
Tie me up, tie me down, make me moan real loud.
I’ve always been a tomboy. I’ve always liked to wear red, black, and white, and mostly pants.
I’m just trying to get used to living on a fixed income. Now, it’s going to get unfixed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I’m fine the way I am. There’s nothing wrong with me.
Does what you think of you determine your worth?