Janet Jackson Quotes

Inspiration for my music just comes from, you know, my life experiences.

My act has always reflected what's going on in my life.

My music has been inspired by true events in my life.

A lot of my music is inspired by personal situations in my life.

The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happened in my life from the time I was fifteen to the time I was twenty.

I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment.

If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.

As I experience life and go through things, that's what I write about.

I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time.

I was inspired to create 'My Life' so I could finally share a personal part of my life beyond my music.

A lot of my work comes from my life experiences.

Anything that's really made an impact on my life, I want to get in the studio and write about it.

My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.

I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment. In fact, maybe that's really it. In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing.

My music is about my life. If it's something that I've lived, then it's something that I've written about.

None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.

When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together.

You're in good spirits when you create and produce great music. All situations inspire music in different ways, man, from good situations, bad situations, depression, falling in love, falling out of love. I've been going through all those type of things.

I always like to write where I'm at in real life into whatever I'm working on.

Every personal experience of my life impacts my music.

What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at the moment.

I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.

My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.