I get so much energy from the fans.

To have someone to relate to and hopefully enjoy the music and get a positive message out of it, to make the best music that we possibly could, those were the goals.

I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.

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.

You get yourself up for it somehow, and your endurance and the crowd gets you up, too.

I think it's been a little difficult at times for the audience, because they've told me they see me as a family member. So to see your little sister sing about sex... I think they are pretty used to it now.

There are people that regardless of what it is, if it's something that's stressful, whatever it may be, they don't eat, they lose a lot of weight, a divorce, they get real thin. I'm the opposite.

As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I'd get ready by myself. I'd set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me up.

I'm flattered that other artists consider me a role model.

I always write my music based on what is going on in my life at the time.

You can't hold the record forever, and I know that. I'm not stupid.

I like myself a lot more than I used to. I had a very difficult time in my twenties especially. It was hard for me to look in the mirror and find something that I liked about myself.

All those songs reflect all the people that live within me.

I kinda see everyone as competition. I'm a very competitive person. But I think that's good. Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.

Big sisters and brothers... I am telling you, it never changes.

I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.

I truly felt that was going to be my last tour. So here we are again and I'm saying this will probably be my last tour. That's truly the way I'm looking at it.

I wanted to talk about my life. There is so much. I was 18 when I made the record, and I had a lot to say.

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

It was the Control album that was really about what I wanted to do.

There's other things I'd like to do. I probably won't tour for a very, very long time. It's something that you feel inside and that's the way I've been looking at everything.

I think it's great if a guy has a good sized package.

I'm just trying to get used to living on a fixed income. Now, it's going to get unfixed.

I'm a very competitive person. But I think that's good.

I have no clue why, but maybe sometimes when there's someone you don't hear from, it's the person you want to hear from the most.

I really don't know anything else because my brothers were famous when I was two years old. So I know nothing else, no other life.

I'm a true believer in prayer, a big believer in prayer.

I wanted to be on my own and get out of the house. We were the kind of kids that - we - obeyed our parents. If they said no, you don't ask why.

I have a very strong family.

That's always - that's been another dream of mine, to do a Broadway play. An award winning Broadway play.

I don't have a lot of friends.

I always get bored with my hair. That's why I would always change it throughout my career.

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.

We're all driven to premieres or nightclubs and seen the rope separating those who can enter and those who can't. Well, there's also a velvet rope we have inside of us, keeping others from knowing our feelings.

I was very independent growing up, but there were things that were bothering me that I never told anybody. I would talk to our animals at home.

I was never pushed into the religion by my mother or anyone else. I made up my own mind when I was old enough. I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual.

I do think kids should be kids. You have the rest of your life to be an adult.

When I gained weight in 2005, my nutritionist was very worried. I was close to having diabetes.

I don't like to work out, and I get bored easily.

When I'm getting ready for a tour, I'll work out with the dancers.

Being on 'Good Times' was the first time I was around a group of people that wasn't my family.

Acting was always my first passion.

Control meant not only taking care of myself but living in a much less protected world. And doing that meant growing a tough skin.

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.

When marginalized people gain voice and center their own experiences, things begin changing. And we see this in all kinds of grassroots movements.

There's power in naming yourself, in proclaiming to the world that this is who you are. Wielding this power is often a difficult step for many transgender people because it's also a very visible one.

Like many teens, I struggled with my body and looks, but my despair was amplified by the expectations of cisnormativity and the gender binary as well as the impossibly high beauty standards that I, and my female peers, measured myself against.

I just love to glow, glow glow, so with my skincare and makeup routine, I gravitate to products that help me achieve that sun-kissed, dewy look.

My personal style really started in my teens when I gained purchasing power to actually buy my own damn clothes. For so long, my parents dictated what I wore, which largely was their way of containing me within the gender binary.

Popular culture is most powerful when it offers us a vision of how our society should look - or at least reproduces our reality.