Quotes from Janet Jackson

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.

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.

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 a velvet rope we have inside of us, keeping others from knowing our feelings.

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

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

I'd adopt. And I think that if I'm really supposed to have kids, it will happen, if that's God's plan for me.

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

My dad taught us that there's no greater distance than that between first and second place.

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.

I can be an emotional eater.

I get so lonely, but I cant let just anybody hold me.

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.

I have a very strong family.

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

You dont have to hold on to the pain, to hold on to the memory.

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