My first name ain't baby, it's Janet, Miss Jackson if you're nasty

The pain is necessary. Sometimes pain is the teacher we require, a hidden gift of healing and hope.

I'm convinced that we Black women possess a special indestructible strength that allows us to not only get down, but to get up, to get through, and to get over.

Recording is more autobiographical than acting. It's me - either how I'm feeling then or once felt at some point in my life. It's all me.

I've talked about sex a great deal in my music for a great while now. I feel very comfortable with it.

Damita Jo. Jo. That's my middle name. It's let in about the different characters that live within me. They say we have 200 characters that we portray with different people.

I'm happy with the people that I have around me. And they've been friends of mine since I was young, for a very long time.