Janet Jackson Quotes

The people in my songs are all me.

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

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

My act is based on my life.

I realized that even though I had this urge, this longing, to write about other people, in order for it to be emotionally gripping, I needed to be in there somehow.

My songs are all personal.

All my songs are where I am.

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

I write from my life, my experience. I'm selfish that way.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

If you're really being honest with yourself when you're acting, part of it is touching the real you. You can only separate yourself so much from the character. Those vulnerable moments do touch me.

I feel like my songs are like diary entries for me. So I usually write about things that have happened to me specifically or sometimes it can be someone who's close to me.

I'm not a super emotional person, so that's one reason I love acting - it makes me deal with myself in that kind of way.

I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.

Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself.

Everything I do is personal. I have never made a movie that didn't have very strong personal resonance.

There are always parts of me that come out in the characters that I play - it's the only thing I have to work with and to draw off of.

I've suffered from an identity crisis my entire life. It's why I went into acting.

Everything I've written has been personal and touched on things that I needed to deal with in my personal life. So I just feel that writing is great therapy, and the best writing comes from truth, and so I mine my life constantly for that.

I started writing songs by myself. That always came from whatever I was feeling and being honest about that because I never had any intention of anyone ever hearing them.

My cinema is an extension of myself. A sort of life-testimony of my vital experience, with my few virtues and my numerous limitations.

If I'm writing strictly for others, how does that show what I'm experiencing or thinking? I just got to a point where I realized I could be as personal as I wanted to be and people could relate to those situations if they so choose.

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.

All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.

Madame Bovary is myself.