Theres nothing more depressing than having everything and still feeling sad. We must learn to water our spiritual garden.
I have so much more confidence in myself now than I ever did before.
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 work with a lot of different charities, and by that I don't mean merely by giving money, but by really getting involved hands-on. I've always said that one of the reasons why I was put on this Earth was to help people. That's something I've always enjoyed both here in America and if I have the opportunity when I'm traveling out of the country. For example, I like to visit orphanages to spend time with the children. That's very important to me.
I'm fine the way I am. There's nothing wrong with me.
There are two things that really move me: music and acting. And I'm not talking about my music or watching myself as an actor, but listening to other people's music and watching other actors. There are so many different songs that have moved me. It all depends upon the mood that I'm in at that moment.
I feel everyone is put here for a reason. Everyone has a calling. I always thought my real calling was to help other people.
When you hear bad things about yourself, just put your energies into something else; it's no good crying about it. Just put it into your music - it'll make you stronger.
When I finally make up my mind that I want to do something, it's never been hard for me to do.
I have met Mariah before and she's really cool and so funny. Everyone has been given the wrong impression of her, and maybe it is her doing. But you have to remember that celebrities are always in the spotlight and are sometimes forced to conduct themselves in a different way than they normally do. That's how it is in the business. I have met artists who are real divas, but Mariah Carey is not one of them. She is a very sweet person, and what nobody sees off camera is the real person she is on the inside.
I've never tried pot; I've never tried anything.
I like to have a lot of fun. I just don't see myself as being sexy. It's more sass - more attitude - than sex.
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.
My dad taught us that there's no greater distance than that between first and second place.
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.
Bound together by our beliefs, we are like minded individuals, sharing a common vision, pushing toward a world rid of color lines.
I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.
To a world sick with racism, get well soon.
I'm a true believer in prayer, a big believer in prayer.
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.
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.
It's very hard trying to have love and a career at the same time. For those who can, great, but I can't.
No word is absolutely wrong or dirty or insulting. It all depends upon context and intention.
If I wasn't singing, I'd probably be, probably an accountant.
I always knew that I could go deep. How deep? I don't know. But it always seems that with each character I take on, I'm challenged to go deeper than the last time, and then again deeper than the last time. This is the deepest I've ever been asked to dive. And to see how deep I actually went for this, and that I wasn't afraid to go there in order to give Tyler exactly what he envisioned for the character, which was pretty deep, that's what I discovered about myself.
