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. – Janet Jackson
By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasnt a very intricate hairstyle. Still, to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual. – Janet Jackson
I am the baby in the family, and I always will be. I am actually very happy to have that position. But I still get teased. I dont mind that. – Janet Jackson
Food has always brought me comfort and the bingeing is triggered when Im in a space that is not positive. – Janet Jackson
I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager. – Edgar Allan Poe
While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of difficult poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and theres room for difficult poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry wont be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice. – Andrew Motion