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.

In 1977, at age ten, I was cast on the TV sitcom 'Good Times.' My character was Penny, an abused child in desperate need of love. I really didn't want to do the show. I didn't want to be away from my family.

I can express gratitude for the simple act of being able to breathe in and breathe out. I can move away from darkness and depression to light and hope. I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be. I am me, the true me; you are you, the true you - and that's good. That's beautiful. That's enough.

To cut off the confusion and accept an answer just because it's too scary not to have an answer is a good way to get the wrong answer.

I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt.

I need you like the blues needs the pain.

It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us.