Jackee Harry Quotes

I have a self-defense mind. I've had it all my life.

I don't put much pressure on myself, because I'm strong mentally.

Luckily, I's learned at an early age that self-preservation was the only way to survive with your soul intact.

I've always been pretty levelheaded. In show business, you need to have a certain internal stability.

Even though there will be times when I'll need to protect myself - there will definitely be times when I'll have to put up my guard just to monitor what comes in and out of my life - there's a grace there... no pun intended!

People are all vulnerable in so many different ways. We go into survival mode a lot of times.

I tend to take things personally. But I can only take so much, and then I jump back. I have strong survival skills.

I know how to look after myself.

For 13 years, I struggled with education and have only just realised that I was actually struggling to protect myself from it. I was trying to protect my soul.

I can't get caught up in the negative because that destroys you.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

I know there's millions of problems in the world, but if you dwell on those, then you're going to be miserable. I think my meditation helps me to transcend and get beyond the grip of all the negativity and regenerate from within a more positive attitude, which comes in very handy when you're going to do 150 concerts a year.

I can handle the craziness some of the time, maybe most of the time. But I know I can't handle it all of the time.

I always knew I was different and that people had opinions about me. I guess I learned as best as I can to shield out a lot and live my life from within.

Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.

I think it comes from far away inside me, to be strong to survive everything that comes my way. I think, going back to the beginning, feeling like an alien in an English school when I was eight, that set up my pride very early on. I think I'm very defensive, but I'm trying not to be like that anymore.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.

I'm afraid I'm still trying to find that balance. Especially now that everyone wants a piece of me. I find that I have to become more and more reclusive, and pick and choose when I am public and when I am private.

There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.

It's easier to shut yourself off outside than reveal your inner thoughts.

People can be cruel, but that doesn't mean you have to take it home, wrap yourself up in it and wear it.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

Nobody else is going to protect yourself. You've got to protect yourself.

Some of the things I've had to overcome in my past, fighting helped me deal with a lot of struggles. Obstacles in life don't make you a great fighter, but fighting - or, I should say, martial arts - helps you overcome your obstacles.