Janet Jackson Quotes

When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.

Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better.

The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.

Absence - that common cure of love.

I dote on his very absence.

You can miss someone every day and still be glad you don't have to see them.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

So, my sweetheart back home writes to me and wants to know what this gal in Bombay's got that she hasn't got. So I just write back to her and says, Nothin', honey. Only she's got it here.

Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.

If you want someone to miss you, go secretly and spray your fragrance somewhere.

It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.

If I didn't like someone, I wouldn't want him calling me up when I was dying. I wouldn't want them having regrets that they didn't talk to me.

Longing, for everyone, is always there, isn't it? More intense at some times than others. You get closer to less longing - an odd metaphoric phrasing, I realize - then, you are further and longing more than ever again.

I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door.

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.

When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.

I loved the idea of Travolta sitting on the kid's swing, pining away for his girlfriend.

'Wanted' is about a girl I was friends with, but at the time it was teetering on the edge of something more. I wanted to show her that I really cared about her. 'Wanted' was my way of saying, 'we're friends and have a great foundation, and this could be something really special.'

Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at nights. Your mind is on her - on whatever. You know, that's the blues. You can't hug that money at night. You can't kiss it.

Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know.

All my lyrics are about my love life or the lack thereof.

I've never written a happy love song.

Love is the most elusive thing I know. Always an arm's length away, teasing me and asking me to stretch a bit more and grab it.